"No!" she snapped, holding tighter even though, logistically, she should not be squeezing him at all. "I don't want you t'die! Yer not allowed to!" Her fingers tightened against his skin. "If I'd talked t'you about it, even once, this wouldn'ta happened. You've been stabbed, fer fuck's sake." And she'd almost died like at minimum twice. "If it's not my fault, it's not yer fault either. Actually, thinkin' about it, I'm pretty sure I know who's fault it is."
Well, maybe two people. The King still wanted to kill her, and until she knew the exact reasons why, it wasn't safe for her. And it wasn't safe for Gareth, either, with Colin around trying to kill him. The only reason he wasn't already dead was because no one could predict a scenario in which "great big sword through the heart" failed to kill a person.
Her train of thought was stopped dead in its tracks by this new news, however. She considered it briefly, then shifted over in front of Gareth, straddling his legs. He didn't seem like he wanted to look at her; she couldn't particularly blame him. But this was important.
"Gareth. I am a woman with a horde of rats in a castle full of rat poison. My boss is a half-demon and my other boss is a dragon who not only wants t'kill me, but gets off on th' fact I'm terrified of him. I have more nightshade than any one person should have, and bundles of brugmansia an' laurel an' hemlock an' god knows what else. No, he didn't tell me about the shitty 'escape clause', but that was always an option fer me. I am here specifically, specifically, because I refuse to fuckin' die. I'm not dyin'. Yer not dyin'. We're both gonna live."
With that taken care of, she started wrapping the bandages again. It was perhaps more awkward from the front, especially given the way he was acting like one or both of them would shatter into a thousand pieces if he touched her, but fuck it. He needed to be bandaged.
"The rats are from the city," she explained, though he had not asked. She felt like she needed to apologize for filling his nice house with city rats, who were always just kind of a lot dirtier than mountain rats, and also all of them and also she had climbed through decade old sewage. She'd keep them on the rafters. It was fine. "I was leavin', y'know, bein' chased, it's the kinda situation where y'need a horde of hundreds of rats. But there's, uh, a blizzard now, an' yer house is like the only shelter here. Sorry."
She was essentially hugging him as she wrapped the bandage around the last few times, but as she was tying it off, she was so startled by what he said that she burst out laughing. Once she started, she couldn't stop; it bubbled out of her hysterically for far too long. When she finally managed to gasp for air and try to steady herself, she had tears in her eyes.
"He thinks what?!" She laughed again. "No one has control over the King! He's a giant fuckin' dragon! That's the whole problem! He jus' does whatever the fuck he wants! What kinda idiot... jus' because he's in love with you or whatever, doesn't mean you can control him! Why in th' fuckin' clouds up above would he think somethin' like that?"
Well, maybe two people. The King still wanted to kill her, and until she knew the exact reasons why, it wasn't safe for her. And it wasn't safe for Gareth, either, with Colin around trying to kill him. The only reason he wasn't already dead was because no one could predict a scenario in which "great big sword through the heart" failed to kill a person.
Her train of thought was stopped dead in its tracks by this new news, however. She considered it briefly, then shifted over in front of Gareth, straddling his legs. He didn't seem like he wanted to look at her; she couldn't particularly blame him. But this was important.
"Gareth. I am a woman with a horde of rats in a castle full of rat poison. My boss is a half-demon and my other boss is a dragon who not only wants t'kill me, but gets off on th' fact I'm terrified of him. I have more nightshade than any one person should have, and bundles of brugmansia an' laurel an' hemlock an' god knows what else. No, he didn't tell me about the shitty 'escape clause', but that was always an option fer me. I am here specifically, specifically, because I refuse to fuckin' die. I'm not dyin'. Yer not dyin'. We're both gonna live."
With that taken care of, she started wrapping the bandages again. It was perhaps more awkward from the front, especially given the way he was acting like one or both of them would shatter into a thousand pieces if he touched her, but fuck it. He needed to be bandaged.
"The rats are from the city," she explained, though he had not asked. She felt like she needed to apologize for filling his nice house with city rats, who were always just kind of a lot dirtier than mountain rats, and also all of them and also she had climbed through decade old sewage. She'd keep them on the rafters. It was fine. "I was leavin', y'know, bein' chased, it's the kinda situation where y'need a horde of hundreds of rats. But there's, uh, a blizzard now, an' yer house is like the only shelter here. Sorry."
She was essentially hugging him as she wrapped the bandage around the last few times, but as she was tying it off, she was so startled by what he said that she burst out laughing. Once she started, she couldn't stop; it bubbled out of her hysterically for far too long. When she finally managed to gasp for air and try to steady herself, she had tears in her eyes.
"He thinks what?!" She laughed again. "No one has control over the King! He's a giant fuckin' dragon! That's the whole problem! He jus' does whatever the fuck he wants! What kinda idiot... jus' because he's in love with you or whatever, doesn't mean you can control him! Why in th' fuckin' clouds up above would he think somethin' like that?"
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