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not_the_last (Cassandra de Rolo) ([personal profile] not_the_last) wrote in [personal profile] serialskiller 2023-01-27 12:36 am (UTC)

Under ordinary circumstances, she would be; the resonance will probably occur to her later. Right now she's too focused on trying to get through the memory while simultaneously trying to ground herself here and now; the main significance of SecUnit's words to her, in this moment, is that they're part of the latter.

"The whole time she was talking," and oh yes, there's the trembling she knows so well, deep in the pit of her belly, "I couldn't move, and she was ... taking off the armor I was wearing. My mother's armor. Piece by piece, and tossing it away like it was trash. Like it was nothing. And then dressing me in a different set of armor, black plate, for -- it was a trap. All three of us, we were a trap for my brother's party, we were set up to look like enemy guards. So they would attack us from stealth, and ... finding out who we were would be a distraction, and a delay."

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