( what she wants to say: ana kuya did her best, for all that her maternal instincts were more akin to a mother bird knocking its children from a nest, ensuring they had all they needed for a (minimal) chance at survival. what she wants to say: there had never been room for it in ravka's plans for her, the path she had been taught to follow: conscription, followed by a dull retirement in a duller countryside, toiling infertile fields into obscurity.
what she says instead: )
There are no universities in Ravka. Every son and daughter is raised knowing they'll be conscripted. Ony nobles can afford private tutors.
( and, unspoken: the right to bribe their child out of a dangerous position in the first army. )
cw references to child soldiers
( what she wants to say: ana kuya did her best, for all that her maternal instincts were more akin to a mother bird knocking its children from a nest, ensuring they had all they needed for a (minimal) chance at survival. what she wants to say: there had never been room for it in ravka's plans for her, the path she had been taught to follow: conscription, followed by a dull retirement in a duller countryside, toiling infertile fields into obscurity.
what she says instead: )
There are no universities in Ravka. Every son and daughter is raised knowing they'll be conscripted.
Ony nobles can afford private tutors.
( and, unspoken: the right to bribe their child out of a dangerous position in the first army. )
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