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AVDOTYA
you think i'll be the dark sky so you can be the bright star?
I'LL SWALLOW YOU WHOLE | She did not react to his subtle advances, but instead pondered the details of the answer to his coming question. The mare presumed he would ask of her scars after they had been brought up, seeking the details of their origin. Far from prepared to indulge him entirely, Avdotya mentally pieced together a vague picture of her past and breathed a soft sigh. "I was abducted from my herd by a filthy excuse of a stallion, collected like a trophy for him to display upon his mantle," she divulged with disgust in her tone, "I did not submit to him as he demanded, so he threw me to the pits for death." Her lip curled at the thought; she could almost smell the hot, wretched breath of the grizzly at the mere mention of her time in the fighting ring.
Where she left off would have been enough for Maxence to figure out the rest. The bear, among other exotic beasts, was just one of many victims of a rich man's sick pleasure and she did not fault it for the marks that it gouged into her. The animal simply did what she and every other being had done in those dusty pits: tried to survive.
Avdotya remained quiet while she swam through all the thoughts that were suddenly running through her mind. Other than Velorca, Maxence was the only other man that now knew of her past (that she knew of) - vague as her telling of it may have been. She was unsure of what it was that drove her to provide him such information, but it prompted the woman to begin to acknowledge her emotions as she never had before. This was unfamiliar territory for a mare who rarely felt a shred of anything, and that was more than enough reason for her to push away whatever it was that she was feeling. "I am sure mine is not the only story of woe, it means little now." She shirked the significance of her time in the capitol as if it were just a small chapter of a bigger story, a frivolous detail to be overlooked. Avdotya no longer cared to dwell on those times, particularly because she had already dealt with the reason for her suffering and that was nothing for Maxence to know of. Not yet.
notes: sry this forever omg tags @maxence |
by blair of shine, translated to html by meverrnind
