“I think so.” Pratik nodded with a little sigh. “I hope the others made it out okay. It’ll be a bittersweet reunion if not. Survivors guilt.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"I hadn't thought of that...the poor girl. It'll be a difficult return."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“It will.” Pratik nodded. “Unfortunate all around.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"How do you plan on tracking the Isi, though, if you're going?"
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“I’ve got a lot of connections I can check in with,” Pratik said. “But I figure Ada will have a better idea than I do. I’m just tagging along to keep her safe, not necessarily navigate.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"I know they speak Akarataran but they don't conform to borders; most nomads don't. They could be in Natai at this point."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“They could,” Pratik agreed. “It’ll be a tall task… I wonder if Ada has an idea of which direction they were headed… though that may have altered after the attack regardless.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"How long has she been away?" he asked. "They'd have to have changed directions after so long."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“I don’t think she’d had a master before Tarr,” he said. “So however long she was in the cage for. I don’t know. I try… not poke things like that.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"I was in there after she was," he mused. "And I want to say the journey from there was.....two months? We made some detours around the East and the South and then headed north."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“Whew!” Pratik shook his head, glaring slightly. “I can’t imagine.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"It wasn't as long as some journeys I've had. But poor Ada was in there longer, then. I was sold in Rhaebaki. Wherever she was captured has to have been far from there, because she was already very thin when I was put in the cage."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
He shivered. "I didn't want to see it up there on the wall...that was too much."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“I understand.” Pratik nodded thoughtfully. He didn’t agree. Not by a long shot. But he understood. It took a certain inner brutality to stomach violence.
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
