martyrofduty: (g1deon!face srs talk)
martyrofduty ([personal profile] martyrofduty) wrote in [community profile] deercountry 2022-12-21 10:40 pm (UTC)

cw: violence, abuse

His title hardly matters to Pyrrha in that moment, though she recognizes the raiment amid the horror of the situation. To have authority and to abuse it, to terrorize a child—for what? What good comes of that? Nothing. None. There's a lot Pyrrha could offer, horrors of her own, but they don't help. They won't help Kiriona, and they won't open the tomb. Besides—

Kiriona wants to do this herself.

Pyrrha let wrongs like this take root by fighting the bigger fight.

Can't fight them all. The price of their long lives was high and not only in the blood of cavaliers. It keeps them from their homes. It keeps them from nipping more problems like these in the bud, from checking on the institutions to correct for negative drift. It's been ten thousand years. It was going to happen. She knows that. She's always known that. This confrontation's only a microcosm of the whole.

No apology immediately leaps to his lips. They hate each other, clearly. "You'll die for your mistress," Pyrrha says coldly, "Is that where you draw the line? Will you let her die rather than eat crow?" It's a memory. Pyrrha can let Harrow die.

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