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So it would seem! Though, if it's a dinner to meet my sister's new little Earthrealm beau, I think bringing an enemy of the realm might be stealing the spotlight a bit.
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"We'll make sure you're fed. We'll find you some clean clothes, and we'll wash these. You'll be safe. With us."
With me, is what she means. She'll do anything in her power to care for that which has taken claws into her heart.
"Good. I'll have the girls clear off the bed. You'll get a nice shower, and. The finest blankets we can find."
Nitara presses her forehead to Mileena's shoulder. If anything in this world, all the world's, mattered, it was Mileena's health and safety.
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rest and safety. Nitara offered both along with something else that Mileena was far too far gone to process just yet.
The teeth that hung slightly parted in their relaxed state close tight along with a clench in her jaw and a tip of her head. Contemplation. โI can travel.โ
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They had raised her to care for her fellows. Every link in a chain must be strong. Who's to say Mileena is not another link in that chain, darting off in a different direction?
"There is somewhere nearby, if you can't. I just. You must be safe."
"Can you travel? I wouldn't want to injure you."
Curse her, for all her softness. Mileena needs her help, and she knows the lecture she's bound to get eventually. If not now, then later. Her gaze is like a soft, bubbling creek. No longer icy, and sharp.
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what level of force it'd take to subdue her and whether or not Nitara would apply it. Still, Mileena isn't the one with all her wits about her here, now is she?
"It won't be long. . ."
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Your sisters can find somewhere else to stay, hole up in a construction site to sleep. All she needs is to take care of what's not rightfully hers.
"I can keep you, but. Not for long, if it must come to that."
Please, she begs. Let it come to that.
"Do you have anywhere to go?"
Hands fold through dark strands, tainting some of her hair an odd, deep hue. She knows of a thousand places she can stay, but there's only one that her heart screams for.
"The lab, maybe? The colony?"
Just take her home, Nitara.
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jagged teeth beneath โโ a broken, vicious version of the Empress Sun Do recognizes. A beast.
Slowly, the predatory gleam in her eyes gives way to something more tragic, almost human.
"Better." There's no shame in her words, only assuredness. "I won't go back like this."
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