[ sometimes, dutch dreams about this — about all the things khlyen did to her, about all his lessons. sometimes, she dreams about the stories he'd tell her, too, when the nights were long and the days were deep, there lived a little girl.
she doesn't expect to see anyone else in the dream, but cassian is there and it doesn't feel like a surprise, the way nothing in dreams ever really seems. ]
Khlyen Kin Rit. It's respectable.
[ the name, that is. the man — that's another question, isn't it? but he's her father in all the ways that matter. she's only just accepted that. he's her father and she's her daughter and aneela is her sister (mother, if you squint) and he did what he did to protect her.
it was terrible, but she gets it. he turned her into a weapon to give her a chance to survive and now that's what she is. a weapon and broken, damaged — but alive.
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she doesn't expect to see anyone else in the dream, but cassian is there and it doesn't feel like a surprise, the way nothing in dreams ever really seems. ]
Khlyen Kin Rit. It's respectable.
[ the name, that is. the man — that's another question, isn't it? but he's her father in all the ways that matter. she's only just accepted that. he's her father and she's her daughter and aneela is her sister (mother, if you squint) and he did what he did to protect her.
it was terrible, but she gets it. he turned her into a weapon to give her a chance to survive and now that's what she is. a weapon and broken, damaged — but alive.
does that make it better? ]