[All of the things he said might be taken by most as kind. As helpful. Compassionate. Yet though she had begun to feel the pull of hope, the taste of freedom... in the end it had come to nothing. Her world was gone. The possibility of the life Matsukaze had offered her, a free life, a life without a price on her flesh and the flesh of her kind... it was gone.
Replaced with a force she can scarcely comprehend who seem to hold the lives of her comrades hostage for her servitude.
And in that circumstance... she can see only the negative. Pity. Condescension. Ignorance.]
I will not be shamed before my brother [by color... probably the centaur whose pod she'd been weeping my in front of] by accepting a human's pity. Take it with you and go, or you will find just how much honor I have left in me.
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[All of the things he said might be taken by most as kind. As helpful. Compassionate. Yet though she had begun to feel the pull of hope, the taste of freedom... in the end it had come to nothing. Her world was gone. The possibility of the life Matsukaze had offered her, a free life, a life without a price on her flesh and the flesh of her kind... it was gone.
Replaced with a force she can scarcely comprehend who seem to hold the lives of her comrades hostage for her servitude.
And in that circumstance... she can see only the negative. Pity. Condescension. Ignorance.]
I will not be shamed before my brother [by color... probably the centaur whose pod she'd been weeping my in front of] by accepting a human's pity. Take it with you and go, or you will find just how much honor I have left in me.