I've sworn to clean it. What you break, I will fix.
( jacaerys is not chipped glass scattered across a floor, meant to be swept away to keep from cutting herself on alia's mistake. but if (if, if, if — a repeating refrain in her head, stuck in a maddening loop) alia had been the one to break him —
she'll painstakingly forge his pieces back together. kiss the scrapes and bruises that alia has taken in her fall, like a child that's taken a tumble, in her steps to be just-alia — a little girl afraid as alina has ever known her to be, born from sun and sand and cursed bloodrights, wanting better for herself than a boy's blood caked into ehr hands. alina will give herself as a mother would, as a saint should, paying great costs. costs that don't feel so enormous, when they're for alia. for paul.
costs that they would not have allowed her to take on herself, if they'd known the bargain she meant to strike with alicent before it was formed. )
Any price is worth keeping you safe. I won't let any harm find its way to your door.
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( jacaerys is not chipped glass scattered across a floor, meant to be swept away to keep from cutting herself on alia's mistake. but if (if, if, if — a repeating refrain in her head, stuck in a maddening loop) alia had been the one to break him —
she'll painstakingly forge his pieces back together. kiss the scrapes and bruises that alia has taken in her fall, like a child that's taken a tumble, in her steps to be just-alia — a little girl afraid as alina has ever known her to be, born from sun and sand and cursed bloodrights, wanting better for herself than a boy's blood caked into ehr hands. alina will give herself as a mother would, as a saint should, paying great costs. costs that don't feel so enormous, when they're for alia. for paul.
costs that they would not have allowed her to take on herself, if they'd known the bargain she meant to strike with alicent before it was formed. )
Any price is worth keeping you safe. I won't let any harm find its way to your door.