dashing: (♛ dàil.)
ᏂᏋᏒᎥᏗᏁ "ᏖᏂᏋ ᏦᎥᏝᏝᏠᎧᎩ" ᏗᎷᏕᏋᏝ ([personal profile] dashing) wrote in [community profile] therookery 2018-05-03 08:29 am (UTC)

cw brief ref to torture/mutilation

A human lifespan, yes. We are human. As for my ears, they are not naturally pointed.

( Perhaps a confusing comment, and she pauses to deliberate whether or not to speak further. Perhaps she has committed to it, now. )

My ears were both rounded at my birth. One was rendered pointed by an enemy blade.

( To underline what she is, or perhaps what she is not. Her heartbeat picks up with the memory, and unseen as she is, Herian lays a hand on her chest as though to quieten it. Calmer.

To speak of the Alienage language is to calm herself, in a way. )
It means, If you want to live a life that is long, don't die.

( Alienage humour, perhaps. Take that, Dalish snobs with your longing for unnatural sounding immortality. )

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