markofthebrave: (Not Sure This Is a Good Idea)
Katara ([personal profile] markofthebrave) wrote 2010-07-25 05:24 pm (UTC)

[filtered | voice]

[...'our men.' And for a second, it's a question on her tongue so hot that she can almost taste it - 'Like me?' Because that distance he just put there disturbs her, disgusts her, and when she's fought before it's been people she's lived and breathed and worked with, with members of a family, sending out people whose names were known, whose parents names were known, who were part of a community - but she swallows it back down. Because he was trained for this, he needed the distance, that's how he was trained. And she realizes, in a sudden flash of insight, that this is the first time he's had to send people he's lived and breathed with into battle. It can't be easy. Let him have his habits - she trusts him.]

Yeah. [A pause, because she can't see something like that and then let it go.] It will work out right, Caesar.

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