"I'll try. I just wanted to be seen as a whole and valid human, no matter what country I was in. Fjerda saw us as unnatural abominations, the Shu saw us as things to experiment on, Kerch as prizes to be bought and displayed, and Ravka... even my own country saw us as most human but still as a means to an end."
She lightly traced the lines of the scar, wondering at the pain he'd endured. Her own scars were few: pale ones all the way around her wrists from where her skin had been rubbed raw and then removed after being bound in rough rope for weeks on end, the tattoos on the inside of each forearm.
Healers had been able to take care of the rest of her, or she could do it herself if the injuries weren't too bad.
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Date: 2017-09-25 11:13 pm (UTC)She lightly traced the lines of the scar, wondering at the pain he'd endured. Her own scars were few: pale ones all the way around her wrists from where her skin had been rubbed raw and then removed after being bound in rough rope for weeks on end, the tattoos on the inside of each forearm.
Healers had been able to take care of the rest of her, or she could do it herself if the injuries weren't too bad.