May 04, 2010 21:21
mercury/mizuno ami (waterfell),
moon/tsukino usagi (rabbitofjustice),
endymion (aroyal_pain),
beryl (red_gem_queen),
luna (epilepticshiny),
beryl akamine (dress_up_queen),
kunzite (kingoftruth),
mercury (queenofkindness),
kunzite (earthvictorious),
mizuno ami (infectiousagent),
nephrite/sorano mari (firehairheart)
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The knowledge that this protects her princess is what keeps Mercury steady, though she's grateful for Nephrite's presence nearby. Trained not to fidget, she manages to hold herself still, but her face blanches of its color as soon as Beryl's sentence begins.
It's barbaric. Instead of a ritual of purification or a banishment, it's to be death. Instead of a quick, clean death, it's to be a drawn-out and horrific one. Why?! Despite her outward calm, her hands properly folded in her lap dig deep into her thighs. Sometimes, she believes she will never understand the primitive and wild people of Earth or their rough way of life.
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She does love Nephrite. She loves him so much. She does. But to see herself replaced, by some other copy of herself, and such a dark copy. Kunzite really has changed, and she doesn't know how to help him.
Perhaps her eyes linger too long. But she nods, to herself it seems, and turns back to the proceedings before saying something quiet to Nephrite, to reassure herself of his presence beside her at least.
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"Kunzite... About this... Are you really glad?" Her head turns to give the area of the pyre a very tentative look.
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"My enemy is dead and my master is safe." The words are simple. There is no malice in them, only perhaps the kindly and condescending tone of one speaking to a small child. "As is your mistress. I see no reason to be anything but pleased."
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Sometimes she secretly wonders, now that she knows the nexus, if he's an alternate who's taken Kunzite's place after all.
"Of course I'm glad they're safe," she says carefully, "But doesn't this seem too cruel?"
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"Cruel, Mercury?" Kunzite arches an eyebrow at her now, and it's perhaps more than ever that he feels as if he speaks to an innocent child, because in part, it's what she is. Despite her long years, she is so much of a child in her naivety. "Tell me how this is cruel, princess? She has been granted a more genteel death than I would have envisioned for the woman who dared to flaunt our king, and to harm our master and mistress. She has been given the dignity of a public execution, instead of squirreled away and murdered in private. She has not been touched by any hand in torture, and she still wore that foolish pride upon her death. Tell me, Mercury. How has this been cruel to her?"
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A thousand complications. She looks rather miserable.
"Why couldn't she have stayed imprisoned?" She does ask that question now.
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"Does... does it really not bother you? At all?" They all seem to have stronger stomachs, be able to handle more brutality.
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