Shady

"I thought I was weak , Evaline!" Jerica screeched, finally breaking as she stepped backward. "No one likes a weak, pathetic girl like me, remember?"

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" Jerica snarled, notching the arrow. She wasn't quite sure what she was going to do with it. But she was angry. And unstable. ...

"Why the fuck would I give you that reprieve?" Jerica snarled, shrugging the bow off her arm. She looked down at it for a long moment, clearly trying to figure ...

"For the goddamn motherfucking wolves," Jerica spat, yanking an arrow from the quiver. "Maybe I should just fucking end it here."

Evaline destroyed Jerica before she managed to dissociate. Her words rang in Jerica's mind again and again and again. All the things she knew were true, and yet fought against ...

Evaline stabbed a dagger into her heart and gave it a twist. Jerica felt her hand tremble slightly and clenched them into fists so they couldn't. She knew she was ...

Jerica clenched her jaw, everything within her wanting to shout in Evaline's face and say all the nasty things crossing her mind. But that was exactly what Evaline wanted. Which ...

Her words were starting to sting again -- memories of Lord Biryn's abuse flashing across her mind's eye as she repeated some of the same phrases he always did. But ...

Jerica started to get agitated but calmed the longer Evaline ranted. It was becoming clear that she was trying to provoke Jerica. Which meant that she wasn't going to play ...

"And what will that help?" Jerica spat. Part of her wanted to take Evaline up on it. To list off the laundry list of things that were completely and utterly ...

"Gods, you're so passive-aggressive." Jerica rubbed her face tiredly.

"I can't make any promises about stopping being Jerica," Jerica said. "I didn't lie about my name."

"Okay," Jerica answered tiredly. Eve -- Evaline -- clearly seemed to think that the revelation should mean something. But Jerica was exhausted from the tension between them. "I'll stop being ...

Jerica stared at her blankly for a moment. That... that wasn't an answer. A revelation, sure -- that the ho had been lying to her from the moment that they ...

"And how exactly was I supposed to take 'stop being Jerica', Eve? Riddle me this."