Getting away
theatrical_muse question: Who was "the one that got away"?
I got away. Twice. Once from the Scarrans, once from the Peacekeepers.
With the Scarrans, there was a woman. A Kalish. She... liked me. Or at least she thought I was attractive. She would come to the slave quarters at night, even though it was forbidden, and I... I was glad of the company. The things the Scarrans forced from me took a toll, and it was good to have someone who would ease away the memories, for a time. I had no illusions that we were more to each other than that. She never allowed me any. Then one day, she came to me, told me she had arranged my escape. Sh risked her life for me. I never knew why. I never knew whether the Scarrans discovered her and killed her once I'd left. I shouldn't have gone. But she was never a person I could say no to.
Then the Peacekeepers found me afterward, captured me again, so it didn't do me much good in the end. Only, I think I would be less... less well than I am, if I'd stayed. Everything would have been very different.
I still pray for her, when I remember.
With the Peacekeepers, there was also a woman. The radiant Aeryn Sun. Nothing has been the same since she shone in the darkness of my cell and set me free.
I got away. Twice. Once from the Scarrans, once from the Peacekeepers.
With the Scarrans, there was a woman. A Kalish. She... liked me. Or at least she thought I was attractive. She would come to the slave quarters at night, even though it was forbidden, and I... I was glad of the company. The things the Scarrans forced from me took a toll, and it was good to have someone who would ease away the memories, for a time. I had no illusions that we were more to each other than that. She never allowed me any. Then one day, she came to me, told me she had arranged my escape. Sh risked her life for me. I never knew why. I never knew whether the Scarrans discovered her and killed her once I'd left. I shouldn't have gone. But she was never a person I could say no to.
Then the Peacekeepers found me afterward, captured me again, so it didn't do me much good in the end. Only, I think I would be less... less well than I am, if I'd stayed. Everything would have been very different.
I still pray for her, when I remember.
With the Peacekeepers, there was also a woman. The radiant Aeryn Sun. Nothing has been the same since she shone in the darkness of my cell and set me free.