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Forgiving (PG-13)
Jun. 15th, 2015 08:23 pmJust a little vignette set in a post POW first-contact story.
Trigger Warning for discussion of sexual assault.
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“Why... are you... helping us?” the male, Sandor, asked. He spoke slowly and carefully, the warm gutturals of Rolas' language sounding tortured in his throat, but without the aid of his device. “You aren't... scared.. of us? Like... others?”
They learn quickly, these humans, Rolas thought.
“I am scared of you,” he replied, “You're ugly, and huge, and hairless. It disgusts me to even look at you. And your device. Some of the images in it were horrifying.”
Sandor and the female human, Miri, exchanged a look at this. Then she answered. “They horrify us too. Our history... very hurt... very much blood.” She gave one of their odd, stiff shrugs. “We do not forget. Must not forget. We do better. Mostly.”
( We do better )
Trigger Warning for discussion of sexual assault.
* * *
“Why... are you... helping us?” the male, Sandor, asked. He spoke slowly and carefully, the warm gutturals of Rolas' language sounding tortured in his throat, but without the aid of his device. “You aren't... scared.. of us? Like... others?”
They learn quickly, these humans, Rolas thought.
“I am scared of you,” he replied, “You're ugly, and huge, and hairless. It disgusts me to even look at you. And your device. Some of the images in it were horrifying.”
Sandor and the female human, Miri, exchanged a look at this. Then she answered. “They horrify us too. Our history... very hurt... very much blood.” She gave one of their odd, stiff shrugs. “We do not forget. Must not forget. We do better. Mostly.”
( We do better )
