A screenshot of a Google Document. It reads: Ilaaks hesitated before mumbling, “I don’t like how it looks, being so long.” She dug her claws into her skirt. “There’s more to it,” Eramis hummed in turn, glancing at the back of Ilaaks’ head as her [hair] prickled up. “You have warrior-hair now, and you are a warrior for your people. It would be good to keep it long, so that others may see the position you’re in.” “I– I don’t like that. Being seen as a warrior,” she admitted, sounding as though her very shell had been pulled from her body as she spoke. “I don’t want to be a warrior. I can’t be a warrior.”

A screenshot of a Google Document. It reads: “Every battle I’ve been in has been the same, Baron Eramis,” she forced. “I’ve always needed [Misraaks] to defend me. I always freeze in conflict. I have never laid a blade or tooth or claw on a foe. I have never shed blood, I gag at the sight of other creatures suffering, eliksni or invader. If having the Great Machine’s gift is to kill and harm and ruin, then I don’t want this gift anymore.” There’s a shuddering breath from the smaller of the two women in the tent. Eramis watches, frozen to process those words, to consider them. To reject the Great Machine or its gifts borders on heresy, and Ilaaks knew this by the ways her eyes widened, how she couldn’t catch her breath quite right. To tell anyone of this, let alone someone of the Dancers, was dangerous. And, Eramis had to contend with, a sign of trust. The fear on Ilaaks’ features, followed by how she snapped her head away, made something cold and sharp melt into a protective, maternal shape.

d2 writing :]
for some context, ilaaks is eido, and this is an au where the traveler stayed on riis instead of fleeing, and gave eliksni lightbearers. ilaaks is a lightbearer, and eramis is not.
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