Post by Deleted on Aug 21, 2015 2:03:42 GMT -5
He did not know her, and Gwynver felt he judged her too freely. She felt like she was being scolded by words that were too harsh and lacked complete understanding. And so her gaze on him turned into a glower that only a young girl could give so dramatically.
"Then you don't want this bad enough. If you truly wanted to defend yourself and your possessions you wouldn't let anything stop you.”
That was ridiculous. The statement in itself was stupid. How could you not let anything stop you- there were several things in life that were designed to stop you, without your choice or how hard you worked? Death stopped everyone, didn’t it? And it was not something one could defeat by being stronger or tougher or wanting to live ‘bad enough’. Everyone has a weakness, he professed, yes, of course they did, but he did not appear to bare physical weakness – he did not appear to show lack of confidence by something that physically bettered him. And so he was met with her glower as she waited for him to explain just how she was supposed to turn something so ugly, and so crude, into a strength.
”What happened to that arm?”
After his words she wasn’t sure she wanted to tell him the details; ”It was burnt.” She said, stating the obvious. Anyone who knew anything about scolding and skin could see that the arm was very badly burnt. They would tell that the skin had completely rotted away and been forced to grow anew. But she did not wish to go into to details as she felt he belittled her. Vyn tugged at the sleeve, returning it to place and hiding the marks on her arm from his sight. There was no need for him to continue to gaze upon it, and frankly she now felt rather uncomfortable.
”Look me in the eye and tell me you want to be some weak skirt, and I will forget you ever asked me to train at all,"
”You don’t understand anything.” She told him, ”Because you are a man, you do not know anything. You do not know just how difficult it was for me to come here today, to come away from my home and without a guard and then approach a stranger with such a task as this- a stranger, may I add, who bears a sword so freely and could very well be the danger I am trying to defend myself from. Everything I have done has been part of one great risk so as I do not appear to be some weak skirt – so how very dare you accuse me of such a thing?!”
Well, that was answer enough wasn’t it?
The girl had a fire about her, that much was clear.
~~
@gregoirejaufret
"Then you don't want this bad enough. If you truly wanted to defend yourself and your possessions you wouldn't let anything stop you.”
That was ridiculous. The statement in itself was stupid. How could you not let anything stop you- there were several things in life that were designed to stop you, without your choice or how hard you worked? Death stopped everyone, didn’t it? And it was not something one could defeat by being stronger or tougher or wanting to live ‘bad enough’. Everyone has a weakness, he professed, yes, of course they did, but he did not appear to bare physical weakness – he did not appear to show lack of confidence by something that physically bettered him. And so he was met with her glower as she waited for him to explain just how she was supposed to turn something so ugly, and so crude, into a strength.
”What happened to that arm?”
After his words she wasn’t sure she wanted to tell him the details; ”It was burnt.” She said, stating the obvious. Anyone who knew anything about scolding and skin could see that the arm was very badly burnt. They would tell that the skin had completely rotted away and been forced to grow anew. But she did not wish to go into to details as she felt he belittled her. Vyn tugged at the sleeve, returning it to place and hiding the marks on her arm from his sight. There was no need for him to continue to gaze upon it, and frankly she now felt rather uncomfortable.
”Look me in the eye and tell me you want to be some weak skirt, and I will forget you ever asked me to train at all,"
”You don’t understand anything.” She told him, ”Because you are a man, you do not know anything. You do not know just how difficult it was for me to come here today, to come away from my home and without a guard and then approach a stranger with such a task as this- a stranger, may I add, who bears a sword so freely and could very well be the danger I am trying to defend myself from. Everything I have done has been part of one great risk so as I do not appear to be some weak skirt – so how very dare you accuse me of such a thing?!”
Well, that was answer enough wasn’t it?
The girl had a fire about her, that much was clear.
~~
@gregoirejaufret