[ Perhaps it is because she is so exhausted that she cannot help the way the gratefulness shines past the exhaustion-prompted moisture in her eyes, or the shaky tilt of her lips that feels unfamiliar.
She has never had reason to smile, so she is unaware that perhaps that the first time she ever does -- under that massive sky overheard, out here in the middle of land that seems to go on forever -- she does, weakly, before she lets her body go slack as the soldier gathers her close.
She burrows into his warmth before she can think better of it. His words are the only reassurance that she needs, because after being so long exposed to the harsh watch of the Masters, here is kindness that she has taken two sunsets to observe; and it is a kindness that offers and asks for no payment in return.
Her last thought as her eyes flutter to a close, is that if all the people in the Blade King's Lightless Lands are like this one single soldier, the King may ask of her what he will, and she will gladly follow. ]
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She has never had reason to smile, so she is unaware that perhaps that the first time she ever does -- under that massive sky overheard, out here in the middle of land that seems to go on forever -- she does, weakly, before she lets her body go slack as the soldier gathers her close.
She burrows into his warmth before she can think better of it. His words are the only reassurance that she needs, because after being so long exposed to the harsh watch of the Masters, here is kindness that she has taken two sunsets to observe; and it is a kindness that offers and asks for no payment in return.
Her last thought as her eyes flutter to a close, is that if all the people in the Blade King's Lightless Lands are like this one single soldier, the King may ask of her what he will, and she will gladly follow. ]