[ She shakes her head, even as her thoughts linger on Viktor for a moment. Relieved, at least, that he wasn't hurt by that man, but.. still a little worried all the same that he was relatively close to someone who might not have been the best person ever.
At least his rejection of what that man did does further cements Chizuru's view of Viktor as a good person.
But his question.. ]
It's just.. [ For a moment Chizuru's voice trails off, and she makes a nervous gesture with her hands before she manages to continue. All of these things are hard to talk about - if not mostly because she constantly hides them from everyone. ] My father and mother.. apparently they died when the village was lived in was attacked. Everyone who lived there was like me [ a little vague, especially since Chizuru does know the word for something like her, it's just hesitancy on her part to actually use it ] and that's apparently why it was attacked. Why.. [ She swallows. ] Why everyone there was killed.
My adoptive father saved me from it by taking me away with him while it was happening. He.. He seemed to think it was important for our kind to live on no matter what since there were very few of us left, and he thought I was important for that, since it's really rare for girls to be born among our kind.
[ One can see where this is going, right. Especially with what Chizuru told Viktor before about what her father wanted for her, with him forcing a specific man onto her and all.
Sometimes you're just seen as a potential special babies machine. ]
cw: non-consensual implications, though nothing that actually happened
At least his rejection of what that man did does further cements Chizuru's view of Viktor as a good person.
But his question.. ]
It's just.. [ For a moment Chizuru's voice trails off, and she makes a nervous gesture with her hands before she manages to continue. All of these things are hard to talk about - if not mostly because she constantly hides them from everyone. ] My father and mother.. apparently they died when the village was lived in was attacked. Everyone who lived there was like me [ a little vague, especially since Chizuru does know the word for something like her, it's just hesitancy on her part to actually use it ] and that's apparently why it was attacked. Why.. [ She swallows. ] Why everyone there was killed.
My adoptive father saved me from it by taking me away with him while it was happening. He.. He seemed to think it was important for our kind to live on no matter what since there were very few of us left, and he thought I was important for that, since it's really rare for girls to be born among our kind.
[ One can see where this is going, right. Especially with what Chizuru told Viktor before about what her father wanted for her, with him forcing a specific man onto her and all.
Sometimes you're just seen as a potential special babies machine. ]