un: absterge

[downswing]

A child failed in Ke-Waihu. Again, in Serthica.

Here, young Princess Cle-Florens, convinced of duty as sacrifice. We cannot abandon.

Elsewise: beware the Wards, the Gut's Bind. Death wanders.

If you have come possessed or hell-tainted, speak.

Comments

[downswing]

You speak as if this does not concern you.

[bravelyrunsaway]

It doesn't. I'm not her guardian. I'm not her father, brother, uncle, cousin, pack. I don't argue against it being storm-struck nonsense that any child be offered for sacrifice, but these aren't my people, and these aren't my stakes, love.

I don't tell you what to do for the sake of your conscience anymore than you can tell me it's my duty to care for people who have no care for me.

[downswing]

A child.

[bravelyrunsaway]

One of many. Have you argued so firmly for the common children here, who lay sick in the Wards? The orphans who fall through the cracks, and are sacrificed by circumstance.

[downswing]

We have not withheld our help from them.

[bravelyrunsaway]

And they are not yet "safe." They want to live. If you can help one more, then good. If not, then you do what you can.

[downswing]

Unambitious.

[bravelyrunsaway]

Practical.

[downswing]

A strange man.

[bravelyrunsaway]

As are we all.