27.Aug.12, 03:02 AM
“I think… I think if I had gone through what you did, I might regret coming to.” She answered softly, watching the bandaged man watching out the window. “It is a blessing that they keep their own healers here. I remember the first… the first time they did this where people could see.” Ah and she did remember, she remembered all too well the mess that they had made the green rider, B’jin.
“It was a rider that time, but a man all the same. I think that is what makes me so afraid.” She paused for a moment, looking down at her hands with their broken fingers, two on each hand making them look like a pair gnarled with age like an Aunties. “But even with the fear, I’d never go back.” There was a quiver in the woman’s voice and a shudder than ran through her body. If they could do this to men, she’d hate to see what they did to women. Oh she’d never give them a reason to. Not if she could help it. But it didn’t make her any less afraid.
But she’d live with her fear any day over living with the complete certainty that pain was a daily thing at the cothold.
“It was a rider that time, but a man all the same. I think that is what makes me so afraid.” She paused for a moment, looking down at her hands with their broken fingers, two on each hand making them look like a pair gnarled with age like an Aunties. “But even with the fear, I’d never go back.” There was a quiver in the woman’s voice and a shudder than ran through her body. If they could do this to men, she’d hate to see what they did to women. Oh she’d never give them a reason to. Not if she could help it. But it didn’t make her any less afraid.
But she’d live with her fear any day over living with the complete certainty that pain was a daily thing at the cothold.