shri: (» they used to shout my name)
lakshmi· ɴᴀᴛᴜʀᴀʟ ᴅɪsᴀsᴛᴇʀ · bai ([personal profile] shri) wrote in [community profile] forbarrayar_ooc 2016-12-01 08:22 am (UTC)

[ There's something of a stifled sigh - she remembered her father's second wife, she had not wanted to be in Jhansi, either, and she did not blame her for leaving. Not with her little brother in Chimbai's arms, still a boy, whose life would only be after and Lakshmi would never know him.

( Was he grown, now? Did he ever manage to have a family of his own? )
]

There are many in our lives that will seek to make those choices for us, but there is no truth to such things. Because no one here truly wants to be here, hurting or dying neither wise and yet for you, they do so. It's nothing about Fighting that has been going on since you were thirteen and all you must have seen, it must be apparent to you by now?

[ It's not harsh, but war is what war is. It cannot be shielded from, as much as that cost to say, it could only be adapted to. The words that she had gathered up in her arms and asked him: what was warrior? 'He who feared none.' What is fear? 'another name for defeat.' ] ... It will come down to you and the weapon you put in your hand.

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