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dragonwarder) wrote2018-06-10 08:33 pm
dragonwarder) wrote2018-06-10 08:33 pm
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[ it never has been. and that caused all the problems, didn't it? it will again. that shadow looms over her again now, the one she's pressing to the edge of her mind, telling her that he hasn't given up anything yet. but she won't bring herself to ask about it. ]
I appreciate your advice.
[ she'd never had a mother. she doesn't know what the line between friendly and maternal advice really is. maybe she's looking for the latter in the former. ]
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But it could be.
[The war isn't her's. She won't fight it for her unless it happens to come here.]
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It wasn't a real compromise.
[ not even a ceasefire. rey's stomach turns with it. it had begun to feel far away. he's changed. they've changed. but maybe they've just forgotten--and it had been the same problem on the supremacy. they fit together easily, as long as the galaxy at large wasn't a part of the conversation.
clarke and marcos had suggested that some people might want to stay here. it sounds appealing, now, if irresponsible. ]
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I cannot say I am wholly unfamiliar.
But for now, you should enjoy what you have.
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somehow, rey hadn't expected that. it's gut-wrenching to recognize how unprepared for gentle encouragement, even permission from someone who had no business granting it, rey had been. she's disarmed for several minutes, realizing that it had never occurred to her that the temporary absence of conflict should allow for the setting aside of it, the development of this and all the complications it brought.
poe had expected some kind of answers. daisy was expecting her to reconcile it. dany only accepts it for what it is. ]
I will.
He'll give it up.
He didn't before. But when the time comes, I know he'll make the right choice.
[ it doesn't need justifying. but she doesn't want dany to believe that she's underselling kylo, either. she doesn't want dany to think that the man he is here and now is the tyrant he'd wanted to shape of himself. ]
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Power and control are seductive, especially for those who have previously lacked for both.
But if you do not live for what you have now, you may find yourself with regrets later.
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And you?
Have you not been seduced by your power?
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Am I the person to ask such a question?
You might ask Jon, or Sansa.
Not that they would likely be able to tell you either.
I had not known of them before my coming here.
Or you might decide for yourself, with what context you have.
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[ she's been wrong before. ]
That's my point. It might be seductive, but that doesn't mean everyone succumbs to it.
If what you say were always true, I'd have taken his offer.
[ who had less power and control than a slave on jakku? she would have felt more confined by that power than saved. she'd never even considered it. not for a moment. ]
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We are the exception, not the rule.
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What makes us exceptional, then?
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And in uplifting others who have never before tasted equality.
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He'll get the second. He helped me.
[ in case daenerys ever thought she lost track of what stance she was defending. ]
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[A beat.]
And for his sake as well, I suppose.
The potential is there, I think.
But I prefer to know more about the gambles I make, and he is not a man I would bet on so swiftly.
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When you said you've seen how others can weaponize someone's ignorance, did you mean firsthand?
[ all this talk about lost control and her wariness makes rey think to actually ask directly. maybe it's too forward. but daenerys has not hesitated to tell her when she's pushing too hard in the past. better to walk it back after. ]
nobody makes icons with harry lloyd in them so i had to settle
When I was much younger.
My mother died giving birth to me.
My father was killed in Robert Baratheon's rebellion.
I made my way in the world with my elder brother for a time, after we were smuggled to safety by those still loyal to the Targaryen throne.
[She leaves it at that, for the moment. Viserys is still hard to talk about, at times. She oft makes habit of dismissing him out of the conversation as soon as someone invites him in. But something about it feels unfair, to only give Rey half the story when she'd asked her for council.]
But those men soon disappeared.
And for the years after, there was only Viserys.
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[ She's trying to keep her replies short and gentle, cautious. They are probing enough without being long-winded. And what does Rey know anyway, about family? It's not like she can empathize. Not really. ]
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I might speak of it easier, were he not.
But in our exile, he grew cold, cruel and joyless.
I thought that I had surely done something wrong.
The truth of it was that I was only ever a trophy to him once I came of age.
Something to be paraded, bought and sold.
And yet, I was the only one left in the world who loved him.
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bought and sold.
just like her parents. no, the context surely implicates that there's something sexual to the way daenerys' brother used and sold her, so it can't quite be claimed the same. rey was able to retain her ignorance. she was sold for a different sort of labor. and as daenerys has said — she has no memories of her parents' kindness to make it harder, more complicated. only the expectation that her family would love her, and their failure to.
she has to wonder, not for the first time, if it is harder to have people who fail you or to have no one at all. ]
I'm sorry.
I know you hate speaking this way. This should be something we discuss in person, not over comms, but I'm trying to find a car to get to the pyramid.
[ kark the timing. ]
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Perhaps I might assist.
Jon is in possession of one of those "bikes".
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I'll have to grab him in the car.
And you, if you tell me where you are.
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There are many people who still need provisions to survive this ordeal.
When you find the car, deliver me your location, and I will come to you.
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I could send you a location, but it could take you to entirely the wrong place. I know this city better than you.
[ she won't like hearing it, but it's practical. ]
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I suppose that is what happens when you entrust the entirety of your daily operations to technology.
I am in the city center, but I should not linger much longer.
[How does she put this...]
Unusually, the heat is not agreeing with me.
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[ she has never liked the mental component of the implant. the total lack of anything analog. it's strange to her, even as someone from an advanced, spacefaring society. ]
That's not unusual. Climate management is down. It seems to be getting to most people.
[ rey wouldn't be surprised if she were the only one unaffected. there'd been good logic to getting the una soldier taken down before anything else -- the heat couldn't hit them too hard by then. ]
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