Post by Tismri on Aug 24, 2014 23:01:52 GMT -5
Teza Mae scowled fiercely at the two Riders before her. The two of them seemed unspeakably craven to her, fearing for their own lives too much to rescue those who should be dear to them.
It's your own selfishness that is driving you to do this, a voice in her mind whispered, and shouted, echoing through her and tearing down her spirit like a sack full of lead. You just want to be free of me, but you want to make sure it can be done first. You are just as cowardly as they. The princess bit back her own retorts to them. She had come civilly, and offered to help Ian rescue his own family who was being held captive. The thanks she received was insults and hatred.
As Ian asked his last question, she set her mouth in a hard line. Why was she pushing so hard for Gloriann's rescue? Because doing so would bring about her own salvation. Or so she hoped. But she couldn't admit that, admit to her weakness before these who already thought her weak.
"It was a mistake to come here. I had thought we could be allies in this, striking Katriana when she least expected it. I see I was wrong. So I will do what I can alone. Come, Pyrrha." She turned, her head still ringing with accusations, hatred, emotions she couldn't even identify. It intensified, and all at once, she felt all the pain from her torture return to her, falling limp on the ground, unconscious. In her mind, she screamed, and Garrus roared aloud in an echo of her mental anguish. Pyrrha immediately leapt to her side, cradling the princess in her arms. She had been silent the entire time, letting Teza Mae speak. But she raised her eyes now to the two heartless Riders who had rejected the offer, and the guards eyes were at once both demanding and pleading.
"This is why she is so desperate," she replied. "She says nothing about it, but I have witnessed the suffering she is going through. At night, she screams aloud, even as her dragon is doing now. During the day, her moods are erratic, and she will become irrationally angry, or else weep as if her heart were broken. I believe the Shade has tortured her more than physically. There is something in her mind, causing all this to happen to her. And I think it is similar to the enslavement that holds your cousin in the Shade's clutches. It is not for Gloriann's sake she wants to go through with this, but her own. If Gloriann can be saved, so too can my princess. She is too proud to admit this herself; she hates herself for this, knowing it makes her seem weak." Garrus' roars grew louder, and more pained, as Teza Mae's eyes moved rapidly behind their closed lids, her body twitching slightly.
"For shards' sake, please help me save my princess from this suffering."
It's your own selfishness that is driving you to do this, a voice in her mind whispered, and shouted, echoing through her and tearing down her spirit like a sack full of lead. You just want to be free of me, but you want to make sure it can be done first. You are just as cowardly as they. The princess bit back her own retorts to them. She had come civilly, and offered to help Ian rescue his own family who was being held captive. The thanks she received was insults and hatred.
As Ian asked his last question, she set her mouth in a hard line. Why was she pushing so hard for Gloriann's rescue? Because doing so would bring about her own salvation. Or so she hoped. But she couldn't admit that, admit to her weakness before these who already thought her weak.
"It was a mistake to come here. I had thought we could be allies in this, striking Katriana when she least expected it. I see I was wrong. So I will do what I can alone. Come, Pyrrha." She turned, her head still ringing with accusations, hatred, emotions she couldn't even identify. It intensified, and all at once, she felt all the pain from her torture return to her, falling limp on the ground, unconscious. In her mind, she screamed, and Garrus roared aloud in an echo of her mental anguish. Pyrrha immediately leapt to her side, cradling the princess in her arms. She had been silent the entire time, letting Teza Mae speak. But she raised her eyes now to the two heartless Riders who had rejected the offer, and the guards eyes were at once both demanding and pleading.
"This is why she is so desperate," she replied. "She says nothing about it, but I have witnessed the suffering she is going through. At night, she screams aloud, even as her dragon is doing now. During the day, her moods are erratic, and she will become irrationally angry, or else weep as if her heart were broken. I believe the Shade has tortured her more than physically. There is something in her mind, causing all this to happen to her. And I think it is similar to the enslavement that holds your cousin in the Shade's clutches. It is not for Gloriann's sake she wants to go through with this, but her own. If Gloriann can be saved, so too can my princess. She is too proud to admit this herself; she hates herself for this, knowing it makes her seem weak." Garrus' roars grew louder, and more pained, as Teza Mae's eyes moved rapidly behind their closed lids, her body twitching slightly.
"For shards' sake, please help me save my princess from this suffering."
