In all his life he has never begged anything of anyone, but he is begging now.
"Enough." His voice is a husk, autumn's last empty seed pod sighing in a grey wind. "Have you no mercy? Please."
"You know the rules," she purrs. "Are you ready to cooperate?"
He refuses to say yes, even now, but he cannot make himself speak the word no. He tries three times to form his lips around it - and then hopelessly, almost silently, starts to cry. The tears trickle into his beard as he shakes his head. It's the only refusal he can manage.
Her lip curls in disgust. "You call yourself a warrior? Look at you," she sneers. "You haven't the strength to resist forever. Why do you continue to try?"
(Afterwards much of his captivity is strange and blank to his mind, but that moment is branded in his memory; years later it still makes him want to crawl into a dark hole and retch for shame.)
True Need 2c/3ish
In all his life he has never begged anything of anyone, but he is begging now.
"Enough." His voice is a husk, autumn's last empty seed pod sighing in a grey wind. "Have you no mercy? Please."
"You know the rules," she purrs. "Are you ready to cooperate?"
He refuses to say yes, even now, but he cannot make himself speak the word no. He tries three times to form his lips around it - and then hopelessly, almost silently, starts to cry. The tears trickle into his beard as he shakes his head. It's the only refusal he can manage.
Her lip curls in disgust. "You call yourself a warrior? Look at you," she sneers. "You haven't the strength to resist forever. Why do you continue to try?"
(Afterwards much of his captivity is strange and blank to his mind, but that moment is branded in his memory; years later it still makes him want to crawl into a dark hole and retch for shame.)
(Two days later, he proves her right.)
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