(When I cannot fight, I need a way to keep others from fighting me.)
[ a noble, understandable impulse. she had been too tired to properly defend herself against felipe after the challenge. she had tried to be like a stone, but he had not been deterred. it was only strength in the end that had cowed him.
it would have been better, she thinks, if she could have simply stopped him. ]
(cw: ref to gendered violence)
[ a noble, understandable impulse. she had been too tired to properly defend herself against felipe after the challenge. she had tried to be like a stone, but he had not been deterred. it was only strength in the end that had cowed him.
it would have been better, she thinks, if she could have simply stopped him. ]