[ It's also easier and more difficult being resigned to the life of a pawn, seeing what next tugs on your strings since you're not the sort to plant your feet and fight with everything you have against the direction you're being lead. Stronger people, better people, might have resistance to offer to these things.
Annie breathes in and sees it as being part of the landscape to accept. This world will be made into nothing. Shuyi will try to prop up a tree that's been torn up. In Annie's eyes, it's cruel, and it's a joke, the kind that she can't find funny.
They were the kind of thoughts she had in the aftermath of sinking her blades into the spines of the Neraki children she'd helped clean up in her stint on Red. Her hands are already stained. She's a tool, just in someone else's hands now, and without the need to lie about it.
Unconsciously, her hands turn palm up. It's a decision she has to make every moment she faces it, owning in a sense what she is, even when it can't be flattering. ]
You could say that.
[ Her fingers twitch inward toward her palms, but she forces them flat. Empty handed - that's how she comes to so much of this. ]
don't apologize i love this stuff so much aaah
Annie breathes in and sees it as being part of the landscape to accept. This world will be made into nothing. Shuyi will try to prop up a tree that's been torn up. In Annie's eyes, it's cruel, and it's a joke, the kind that she can't find funny.
They were the kind of thoughts she had in the aftermath of sinking her blades into the spines of the Neraki children she'd helped clean up in her stint on Red. Her hands are already stained. She's a tool, just in someone else's hands now, and without the need to lie about it.
Unconsciously, her hands turn palm up. It's a decision she has to make every moment she faces it, owning in a sense what she is, even when it can't be flattering. ]
You could say that.
[ Her fingers twitch inward toward her palms, but she forces them flat. Empty handed - that's how she comes to so much of this. ]
I did pick you back up, after all.