I'm Not Alone (Yet)

General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game)

F/F | for familiarsound | 100 words | 2022-07-21 | Prose Palettes | AO3

Kagutsuchi | Brighid/Adel Orudou | Addam Origo's Wife

Kagutsuchi | Brighid, Adel Orudou | Addam Origo's Wife

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The other woman whispers, and it's like dust settled atop the baseboards. A coating of nostalgia, as it were, caresses their heads, without feeling.

"You don't belong away from your position."

"I belong anyplace I please. You don't think I'll let a man tell me how to go, who to be...do you?"

A lip is bitten, but toothlessly; pale and hushed.

"You don't seem to be letting me."

"So there. You see how serious I am."

Nobility, a veil and an incentive both simultaneously, is what finally gets Brighid to budge.

"I know you'll hold your head higher there."