07-06-2017, 09:09 PM
you won’t see me fall apart
doesn't mean it's all you can know
is it true that she could learn something else that she could be shaped by something other than her father other than the shadow with the orange eyes other than other than other than
She doubts it very much - there is nature and there is nurture. She has both from the same beast. How do you override that? Plus the expectations laid down around her shoulders, cloaking her with the weight of what they mean. She should tread carefully over these thoughts. Father taught her to observe, to think critically - but not about everything. Some things were dogma to him. A mantra to be repeated. A flaw to enhance in others. What does she truly know of those promises? Nothing, she realizes.
"Perhaps," she admits, though she is not convinced she could learn anything else. Who would welcome something with a scar like hers? No one, she knew that, though it helps her case as a fighter. Who would turn her away, a better question.
"Probably no harder than learning to be a sentry," she says, a mild tease. Then, with a rolling shrug of her shoulders, "It is about reading others, finding their weaknesses instead of their strengths. Exploiting them. It becomes second nature after a bit."
is it true that she could learn something else that she could be shaped by something other than her father other than the shadow with the orange eyes other than other than other than
She doubts it very much - there is nature and there is nurture. She has both from the same beast. How do you override that? Plus the expectations laid down around her shoulders, cloaking her with the weight of what they mean. She should tread carefully over these thoughts. Father taught her to observe, to think critically - but not about everything. Some things were dogma to him. A mantra to be repeated. A flaw to enhance in others. What does she truly know of those promises? Nothing, she realizes.
"Perhaps," she admits, though she is not convinced she could learn anything else. Who would welcome something with a scar like hers? No one, she knew that, though it helps her case as a fighter. Who would turn her away, a better question.
"Probably no harder than learning to be a sentry," she says, a mild tease. Then, with a rolling shrug of her shoulders, "It is about reading others, finding their weaknesses instead of their strengths. Exploiting them. It becomes second nature after a bit."
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