saares .
Saares is well - adjusted to pain. Scars are hardly anything new — the audacious ones about her mouth / the welt - like wounds that stain her wrists and collarbones / the puckered and keloid and faded wounds which cover her from battle and punishment and and and. Pain she can endure. Helplessness, though ——— no. Not that. Not ever that. If she cannot control her magic, she is powerless. IT IS HERS. IT COMES WHEN SHE CALLS AND NO OTHER TIME. NO ONE ELSE GETS TO CONTROL WHEN HER MAGIC BLOOMS EVER AGAIN.
“Feeling?” She wonders. It makes sense, Saares supposes; the magic spasms when she feels too loudly. But it came, too, when she was bound and collared, and during that time she had felt very little at all. She notes the empty hands and it takes her a beat too long to realize what Mislyn is offering. ( still unused to being cared for. ) When she does, though, she slowly offers the bandages and then her wounded arms. “The magic is…harder to stop when — when I feel. But it…comes even when I’m. Empty.” It hardly matters. This is a step in the right direction. Her smile doesn’t fall. “Said he was — going to report it to the. Commander.” She SNORTS, then. It is funny. Mislyn LIKES HER.
Cullenthe Templar can’t touch her.
❛ i suppose it’s not the same for everyone . ❜ especially not for someone treated like a weapon instead of a girl , who was saarebas instead of a person . she doesn’t speak much qunlat , but that she knows . ❛ you will learn , though . how to make it yours . ❜ mislyn never had the touch for healing magic , more suited to less delicate specialties , but bandages she can work with ; something she’s picked up from years spent watching her mother’s sure hands . sometimes her hands shake so badly & the anchor makes her spasm , & there’s nothing she can do to still them — but now they are steady , gentle as she wraps the cloth around saares’ arms . she supposes they’re both learning about control ; in different ways , for different reasons .
she laughs then too , gives a knowing look , a sly smile . ❛ ah , unfortunately he’ll find the commander is outranked . ❜ & she’s glad saares seems to know it already . still , mislyn thinks of the iron bull , loud & imposing & too clever . she thinks about the templar . it is hard , she imagines , for saares to feel safe here . her smiles falters , but her eyes remain kind . ❛ as long as you’re with me , i won’t let anything bad happen to you . ❜