homophonic ❆ nahri

[bindings]

nahri

You're not just a memory.

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[ashmark]

It would be worse.

[ that is something she can say for certain. you don't make it as a little street rat by thinking happy thoughts and being nice. ]

...No matter what, we're still a team.

[ the affirmation feels necessary. no matter how dark or heinous those thoughts are - should this hypothetical become reality - she she won't drop this team for anything. ]

[bindings]

[another little wave of sorrow curls through her.]

Yes. [... they're still a team. she rests her head against nahri's shoulder.] But I don't only care for our team.

[which is part of the problem, she guesses.]

[ashmark]

[ that finally breaks through her smoldering emotional insulation and her mood just. plummets. ]

I know. [ she can barely get the words out. ]

And I know you're going to protect them too.

[ for a second, it sounded like she was going to say something else, like her words got a false start, but she doesn't say anything else. ]

[bindings]

[she holds just... just a little more tightly.]

I'd like to. [she says, quietly.] But I know that I won't be able to.

[she knows what's realistic. she knows what the end to all of this is.]

[ashmark]

[ she falls quiet, not sure how to fill the silence between them. she doesn't have the words to fill it.

so she strokes shenhe's hair for a moment while she thinks. ]

Have you thought about teaching anyone how to protect themselves? Or... fight?