[ It's easy to be told what to do. It's even easier to do if you think it's something for the 'greater good.' Rose knew all too well about falling in line and doing what she was told to survive. Her situation was different, certainly, but it didn't make her actions any less selfish. Didn't change all the lives she took because it's what she was told to do. Some days she still struggles with 'there was no other choice' and feeling like a coward because they were and she just didn't want to see them. ]
Thanks.
[ That's all she'll utter at first before taking a seat next to Kate in the rubble. At the question, there's a lapse of silence as Rose stares blankly ahead in contemplation.
How is she holding up? Not well, if she's being honest with herself. But when is Rose ever honest with herself? With others? Her double had deceived everyone. No, that's not right. It actually hadn't. She's been the deceiver. Her double was honest and that was scarier than it being deceptive.
It was her. It was Rose. It was everything about the woman that she's been trying to hide since arriving in Hadriel. It wasn't a dark manifestation of herself; it was herself out and open. The monster that devours perhaps not because it has to but because it enjoys to. It's something Rose has had to face a couple of times here but never quite so potently. Did she really need to consume flesh? Did Kite's experiments actually change her physiology? Or did it instead awake a hunger in her she'd been denying all her life? A hunger that couldn't be sated any other way and that she's had a taste she's turning into the creature she never asked to be born as.
A creature that didn't deserve Faith's kindness. Anyone's, really, but especially not hers. ]
I've had better days, definitely. [ Always with the understatements. ] How about you? I mean, I'm sure I already know the answer but...
[ A vague wave of her hand. Everyone seems to be in a state of disarray these days. These are the events that they get glimpses of the god's actual power, she thinks. It's a wonder how if they're this strong, can cause this devastating an effect through everyone in the city... What could possible kill them? They're called gods because of their power compared to mortals but then who are the Titans that felled them to begin with?
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Thanks.
[ That's all she'll utter at first before taking a seat next to Kate in the rubble. At the question, there's a lapse of silence as Rose stares blankly ahead in contemplation.
How is she holding up? Not well, if she's being honest with herself. But when is Rose ever honest with herself? With others? Her double had deceived everyone. No, that's not right. It actually hadn't. She's been the deceiver. Her double was honest and that was scarier than it being deceptive.
It was her. It was Rose. It was everything about the woman that she's been trying to hide since arriving in Hadriel. It wasn't a dark manifestation of herself; it was herself out and open. The monster that devours perhaps not because it has to but because it enjoys to. It's something Rose has had to face a couple of times here but never quite so potently. Did she really need to consume flesh? Did Kite's experiments actually change her physiology? Or did it instead awake a hunger in her she'd been denying all her life? A hunger that couldn't be sated any other way and that she's had a taste she's turning into the creature she never asked to be born as.
A creature that didn't deserve Faith's kindness. Anyone's, really, but especially not hers. ]
I've had better days, definitely. [ Always with the understatements. ] How about you? I mean, I'm sure I already know the answer but...
[ A vague wave of her hand. Everyone seems to be in a state of disarray these days. These are the events that they get glimpses of the god's actual power, she thinks. It's a wonder how if they're this strong, can cause this devastating an effect through everyone in the city... What could possible kill them? They're called gods because of their power compared to mortals but then who are the Titans that felled them to begin with?
Rose hopes she never knows. ]