and when i breathed
my breath was lightning
She has been waiting for this. Dreading it, really. Not that she knew every detail. Rhy hadn’t been privy to the conversation with Straia (doesn’t know it’s happened, truthfully), but she is aware that the Gates had come to them. And she also knows, if only because of her connection to Straia, that the Chamber would be more than happy to ally with the Amazons. Assuming, of course, the Amazons wanted to play a little dirty.
Rhy come quickly, but she lingers off to the side a bit. In the end, though she doesn’t know exactly what will be said, she already knows this is not a choice she can make. It’s not one she should make, even if she could. Rhy is silent, not really making much small talk, but rather wishing to be invisible through all of this. She just doesn’t want anything to do with it.
Why? Oh, for far too many reasons.
But she’s hear, and she listens as Lagertha speaks. But she doesn’t agree, of course. They could stand by and not take action. That, to her, is a better decision then aiding the destruction of Beqanna. Either help the Gates to stay the hell away. But she knows why it’s not an option. Lagertha is a warrior. She wants a war, and more to it, she wants to remind Beqanna that the Amazons are a force to be reckoned with. Rhy would argue that Beqanna already knows this, with both sides looking for the help of the sisters. But she can see Lagertha’s point of view, even if she does not like it.
And here’s the rub. There’s a dark bit in heart that clambers to fight with the Chamber. A piece of her burned dark and deadly after her time in space, after she felt the thrill of her own powers, the thrill of blood beneath her claws. They could destroy Beqanna. And oh, she can see it. Can see how easily she could light up the sky, could set the trees alight.
But how could she ever agree to that. How could she watch the Gates burn simply for the pleasure of it? Her family still lived there, though they were no longer close. But those were Kaelie’s children (adopted or not, it had never mattered to Kaelie). And on the other hand, there was Straia. Her family as well. How could she ever be asked to destroy one side of her family?
And so she won’t answer. In the end, she is not a fighter, though that dark part of her heart begs to differ. She’d better equipped to be a spy. Better equipped than most to stay behind and protect the Jungle (she could do so single handedly, if she had to). Not all of them could leave here. And perhaps others would stay, but Rhy had always been the sentry here. Though the snow, when no one else could stay. And likely, she suspected, through the war. One that could probably be avoided, but would not, simply because Beqanna was restless.
“I’ll do what the Sisters want.” she says, and nothing more.
rhy
the electric lioness of riagan and rayelle
