[She feels, in that moment, such an intense feeling of deja vu. To that confrontation months and months ago, after months of avoiding that man after he confessed his feelings for her. To his voice, stern and hurt and concerned when it cut to the core of why she had struggled to accept his words. Who are you trying to convince, here? Ask yourself that honestly.. But she’d spent almost her whole life refusing to honestly see certain things in order to live, so-
... Do you think you're unlovable?]
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[Of course she had never been taught how. Her own parents had been a stallion chosen for stud based on his obedience and swift genes and a dam chosen simply because she had a womb. They had never held her or loved her, and they had certainly never loved each other, come together only a few times for groom-supervised mounting in the breeding stall. None of the grooms at the stables had wives, the most she had ever seen was an occasional prostitute, and her own fate… she’d always known what it was supposed to be. To be sold untouched, and then after…
They are not the same Aspect, but they have known each other… a long time, now. She has come to him… somewhat ready to be open.
So he’ll sense it. All that. The insecurity that she’d never been given cause to feel from another, but from her own past, her own hearts…
The way she seems to reluctantly admit that he might not be wrong.]
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... Do you think you're unlovable?]
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[Of course she had never been taught how. Her own parents had been a stallion chosen for stud based on his obedience and swift genes and a dam chosen simply because she had a womb. They had never held her or loved her, and they had certainly never loved each other, come together only a few times for groom-supervised mounting in the breeding stall. None of the grooms at the stables had wives, the most she had ever seen was an occasional prostitute, and her own fate… she’d always known what it was supposed to be. To be sold untouched, and then after…
They are not the same Aspect, but they have known each other… a long time, now. She has come to him… somewhat ready to be open.
So he’ll sense it. All that. The insecurity that she’d never been given cause to feel from another, but from her own past, her own hearts…
The way she seems to reluctantly admit that he might not be wrong.]