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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-08 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ mavis sits with that apology for a long, uncomfortable silence. she can feel his grief, his sincerity, as surely as she had felt his hunger. both had felt like him.

she draws nearer to him, studying his face. close enough to touch but never closing the distance entirely.

then she reaches into the back of her waistband and produces a kitchen knife. she holds it by the blade, offers it to him. her good knife was lost to the void, but this one will serve for now.
]

Take it. Hurt me.
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-08 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ she shrugs. why indeed. he wouldn't hurt her. she knows this, and it was why she'd offered it in the first place. not for the sake of it, not for revenge.

it reassures her anyway. that the seed hadn't taken root in his mind, that she was to blame for all that death. her crimes are different, less personal to him, but she is familiar with the sense of responsibility.

she puts the knife away.
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Exactly. [ she nods. ] Words mean nothing. This is what matters. You owe me nothing.
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-08 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ felipe had hugged her. had thrown himself recklessly at her, relieved by the light behind her eyes. she can feel the urge there, but he stamps it down. ruffles her hair instead.

kid.

so she does it for him. it's the first one she has taken, seized for herself. she closes her arms around his middle and hopes that she is just convincing, just reasonable.

that she is not a kossian, pressing her thoughts onto his, making him feel and think things that aren't his own. the kind that kuruko told stories about over fires to warn children not to wander too far.
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-08 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
No.

[ if she'd hated him, he'd be dead.

who was she kidding? she was so desperately afraid of returning to the life she'd had in the wilds that she can't even kill someone she hates because she is too attached to him. even if she'd hated daryl the moment he'd jumped her, she couldn't have killed him either.

but she doesn't. herself, a little, maybe. for her own weakness. but not him. he had only taken what he'd rightfully been able to wrest from her.
]
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-09 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
What answer do you want?

[ it's the images themselves that make him ask. the memory. he flinches from it, yes, but the memory of the hunger is still there too. the way he'd thrilled in all of it.

did he hope he'd left his mark? was that stronger than the guilt that he might have? mavis' head tilts a little as she cranes her neck to look up at him.
]
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-10 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she doesn't want to tell him.

but.

with the distance between them, now, mavis reaches up to unlace the tie that holds the top of her blouse closed. she untucks it and pulls it over her head in one efficient movement.

she doesn't wear anything to support her breasts. there's no need. despite the fact that he hadn't gotten a chance to see that properly out in the void, she doesn't look self conscious of her nakedness. it's just skin, and they've already determined he isn't going to hurt her.

she turns her back to him.

there are other scars β€” a smattering of them, different kinds, some of them faded with age. but where he'd pressed his paw down into her, where his claws had scraped and dug, there's nothing. like it hadn't happened.

she hasn't seen her back firsthand, but she'd seen her thighs. it's an easy guess, and much easier to demonstrate rather than have to find words for when words always require a higher lift for her. she's still so unused to actually communicating with other people, still getting used to the sound of her own voice.
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-12 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
I am too.

[ no proof of her weakness. the other scars were from battles won and hardships overcome. they are marks of honor and resiliency. not from the one that bested her.

she turns towards him again as she pulls her shirt back on. despite not being able to see him then, she'd heard and felt plenty.
]

I made you uncomfortable.
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-12 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
I don't believe that. [ she hadn't done it to punish him. ] We've been naked together before.

[ not in the void. but then, she recalls, he'd been uncomfortable then too. she would have thought even the people who were uneasy with that originally would have gotten past it here, with the festivals being like they are.

not daryl, though. he may be the person she knows with the strongest sense of who he is. it'll take more than that to change him. more than death, too, she hopes.
]
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-12 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

[ she shifts her weight. it feels stupid to apologize for something like making him remember that, all things considered. it will probably be a while yet before she apologizes to daryl for anything.

but it's clear she hadn't meant to thrust it upon him unwelcome, from her awkward lingering.
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Those clothes don't suit you. [ she changes the subject inexpertly, pointing to the clothes that the duchess had provided them with to leave. to replace the ones that had been destroyed in their death. ]
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-13 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Rough. Sturdy. Smells like the woods.

[ she draws a line down the side of her chest. ]

With straps.

[ she's never seen work overalls before coming here, but she already knows to associate with people who can't be yanking their pants up all the time because they're busy doing manual labor. that's daryl.

not this fancy thing.
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LMAO OH GOOD

[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-13 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she tries to imagine another use for a belt. looks at his briefly, doing some kind of mental calculations. while he may be thinking tourniquet, she's thinking garrote. eventually, she tips her head in acknowledgment, which turns slowly into a nod. yes, he's right. that's useful. ]

The hunting lodge can give you good work clothes in exchange for kills. [ she moves to the other bed, pulls her feet up onto it and crosses her legs. ] What else did you lose?
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[personal profile] telepathy 2023-08-14 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
The woods are full of weapons.

[ mavis says this almost automatically, dismissively. ]

I will make you one.

[ at least, one that is functional enough until he can get his own. she's already working on that bow for leah, anyway. ]

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