“Oh.” She nodded. “Well… that’s good at least. It’s very nice.”
"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]
She nodded. "It's delicious. Have you had the lichen bread up here yet?"
"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
“Yes ma’am.” Talia nodded. “The green bread, right?”
"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]
"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’s good.” Talia nodded as well. “… very different. But good.”
"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]
"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
Talia nodded in agreement. “The stew up here is super heavy though. Warms you right up.”
"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]
"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 does a good job.” Talia nodded. “It was incredible how much better I felt yesterday putting on thick clothes and eating the oatmeal.”
"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]
"Captain Bay told me they didn't let you eat at all," Sera said with a small frown. "And I saw what they had you dressed in. Didn't they care if you got sick?"
"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
Talia hesitated, then shook her head, blushing a little. “… well… maybe they did. I don’t know. We had thicker clothes on until maybe the last half hour or hour or so before we got here. We just thought… we expected…” she bit her lip, trying to think of how to finish that phrase without offending her. She kept her gaze on the herbs. “It wasn’t personal. We knew nothing of Lord Ash; just what we were told to do when we got here… and they let us eat the day before. They didn’t starve us the whole trip. They just wanted us to be thin before we were presented.”
"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]
"Disgusting," Sera said, shaking her head. "That they did that to you. And they had no idea of any of our customs, from the sound of it. But the fact that they starved you..."
"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
Talia shrugged uncomfortably, still not looking up. “It wasn’t all bad… cold, but a relatively easy month or so… no one was allowed to touch us on the way up here…” she tied off the herbs and turned towards the closet. “…which was nice.”
"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'm sorry you lived that life," Sera said quietly. "Yoi were only a child; it shouldn't have happened."
"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’s okay.” She shrugged and glanced at her at last, smiling a little. “I was good at it, so my life was fairly easy.” She turned and hung up another bundle. “Much harder for the girls he disliked.” She shivered a bit despite herself.
"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]
