Put her life in danger? That was a damn near inevitability? Put her life in Amélie's hands? She trusted her, as much as she could trust anyone anymore. Push Amélie to recognize something in herself she seemed determined to ignore or overlook? Well...
There wasn't anything confrontational in her gaze, nor her tone, nor the way she sank back to sit and stared across at the other woman as the firelight licked across the broad strokes of her frame. She let the silence linger there, her skin thrumming where those fingers had, ever so briefly, started to press in.
"Today you do. Today you have a choice, and even choosing not to make it is still a choice. If you decide that you want to embrace being a weapon, tearing out whatever makes you weak and trying to live according to their idea of what you are, then today? That is your choice."
Iron Bull, Cullen, Leliana...all people who'd had the option of taking the easy road, accepting a crueler fate, and choosing to walk through to the other side. You couldn't decide that for someone else. Even now, as Amélie hung her head, the possibility was there, shimmering and tantalizingly real. Swallowing again, Marjara's fingertips reached out, grazing one pale cheek in a gesture that near mirrored the one that had come before. Come on, just look up. Look her in the eyes and tell her this is really what you wanted for yourself.
"If you had today, Amélie, and nothing else...what would you choose to do?"
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Put her life in danger? That was a damn near inevitability? Put her life in Amélie's hands? She trusted her, as much as she could trust anyone anymore. Push Amélie to recognize something in herself she seemed determined to ignore or overlook? Well...
There wasn't anything confrontational in her gaze, nor her tone, nor the way she sank back to sit and stared across at the other woman as the firelight licked across the broad strokes of her frame. She let the silence linger there, her skin thrumming where those fingers had, ever so briefly, started to press in.
"Today you do. Today you have a choice, and even choosing not to make it is still a choice. If you decide that you want to embrace being a weapon, tearing out whatever makes you weak and trying to live according to their idea of what you are, then today? That is your choice."
Iron Bull, Cullen, Leliana...all people who'd had the option of taking the easy road, accepting a crueler fate, and choosing to walk through to the other side. You couldn't decide that for someone else. Even now, as Amélie hung her head, the possibility was there, shimmering and tantalizingly real. Swallowing again, Marjara's fingertips reached out, grazing one pale cheek in a gesture that near mirrored the one that had come before. Come on, just look up. Look her in the eyes and tell her this is really what you wanted for yourself.
"If you had today, Amélie, and nothing else...what would you choose to do?"