04-10-2012, 02:52 PM
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[/html]They saw the story through different eyes. Vesper’s words painted a different picture from the one Tayui had witnessed in the failed slave rescue attempt. Tayui would have never thought she could teach anyone anything again after she’d forsaken her tribe. It had been something she’d held so dear to her, so close to her heart, that she’d wanted to lose it. Tayui could not mourn the murder of her daughter if she did not suffer properly. Shadowed Sun was so long ago and being a mother felt like such a distant fantasy that Tayui had not considered being able to pick up the trade once more: teaching.[/html]
But it seemed as though Vesper had done more learning than Tayui had done teaching. It had been inadvertent at best and Tayui was fortunate that Vesper saw it as she did. Even though Tayui wanted to grimace and frown, Vesper pulled her out of her own self-misery with a lick to her ear. She wanted to giggle because it tickled and it felt so nice. She pulled her head back, out from the crook of Vesper’s neck so that she could speak without ingesting a mouthful of fur.
“I want to be your friend, too, Vesper,” she replied. “We’re even. We’re even and we’re friends,” she said. The last word came out as a long sigh. It felt like the first time she’d really breathed in a long time. She smiled, buried her head in Vesper’s neck, and brought one foreleg up to give the other woman a doggish hug.[html]