♕ 007 voice

[breathoflight]

That was my first experience with what most of you consider to be modern. I...I had fun while I was there, but it was admittedly a little difficult at times when those men with cameras would appear. What are they called? Papa-something.

[Cameras were actually pretty rad until that happened. Now she's unsure how she feels about them. Rude, rude paparazzi.]

I was just wondering though, is it normal for something like that to happen?

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[breathoflight]

I've fought before though I believe battle is a little different from what you're referring to.

[landfall]

No, battle is just about - you've been in battle?

[breathoflight]

Yes. My kingdom was at war. I could not ask my people to fight and not take up sword myself.

[landfall]

Sword. Literally a sword?

[breathoflight]

Yes...?

[Snow's not sure what the problem is here. :c]

[landfall]

Wow.

[breathoflight]

I'm sorry?

[landfall]

It just changes how I was looking at you.

[breathoflight]

Why should it change anything?

[Snow's not all that sure what she thought about her before. Or what exactly this changes.]

[landfall]

You just didn't seem like a violent person.

[breathoflight]

I am not. I fight because I have to, not because I want to or because that is my nature.

I wish things could have gone differently with Ravenna than they had, but I was out of options.

[landfall]

Hate to say it, but if you fight, and you win, it's in your nature to fight. It doesn't have to be a bad thing, and you don't have to like it. If it's not in your nature, you don't fight even when it is important.

[breathoflight]

You make a fair point. But even still, I do not think of myself as someone who is violent.

[She didn't even know her way around a sword until she managed to escape the castle.]

[There's a small pause before she adds somewhat quietly:]

I still mourn the lives that were lost.

[And not just those that fought under her father's banner.]

[landfall]

That's just part of being a decent human being.

[ Racetrack considers herself... violent, probably. She's certainly done plenty of violent things. Maybe she'd like to live a peaceful life, but that doesn't mean she wouldn't shoot someone in the face if the situation called for it. ]

All right, I just didn't see you as a war leader, then. It's not bad or good, it's just different.

[breathoflight]

It is more customarily the duty of a king.

[landfall]

...who cares about that.

[breathoflight]

Some do.

[Snow doesn't in particular.]

[landfall]

I don't. And you shouldn't.

[breathoflight]

If I did, I do not believe I would be where I am today.

[landfall]

Good.

[breathoflight]

It's common in your world then? To not let sex determine whether you can fight or not, I mean.

[landfall]

I'm a combat pilot, and I'm only one of a lot of women.

[breathoflight]

I am glad to hear that.