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ankewehner: “Tez meeting (or thinking about) Swan after Maria's death.”
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You have a great deal of nerve would have been the obvious thing to say. But then, Swan was his daughter. The observation would have been redundant. So Tez waited until she had bent her head over Maria's coffin, the prayers had been spoken, and they had all shuffled out of the temple to follow the hearse to the graveyard.
He fell in beside her as they walked behind it along the road, a little ahead of the other children. “Why?” he asked quietly. “You know I'm going to kill you.”
“You'll try,” she replied serenely. “But not today.”
“I could snap your neck right now.”
“Right in front of all the grandchildren? Yes, I'm sure Mother would appreciate that.”
“Like I care.”
“You do care, or I would have been dead the moment you caught sight of me. Half the others are wondering why you even let me in here. But you're not going to sully this day. Tomorrow perhaps I'll die, but not today.”
"Which still begs the question. Why?"
"She was my mother. Don't you think I had the right to see again?"
"You lost that right when you sold her to the dragons," he growled.
ankewehner: “Tez meeting (or thinking about) Swan after Maria's death.”* * *
You have a great deal of nerve would have been the obvious thing to say. But then, Swan was his daughter. The observation would have been redundant. So Tez waited until she had bent her head over Maria's coffin, the prayers had been spoken, and they had all shuffled out of the temple to follow the hearse to the graveyard.
He fell in beside her as they walked behind it along the road, a little ahead of the other children. “Why?” he asked quietly. “You know I'm going to kill you.”
“You'll try,” she replied serenely. “But not today.”
“I could snap your neck right now.”
“Right in front of all the grandchildren? Yes, I'm sure Mother would appreciate that.”
“Like I care.”
“You do care, or I would have been dead the moment you caught sight of me. Half the others are wondering why you even let me in here. But you're not going to sully this day. Tomorrow perhaps I'll die, but not today.”
"Which still begs the question. Why?"
"She was my mother. Don't you think I had the right to see again?"
"You lost that right when you sold her to the dragons," he growled.
