So focused was she on controlling her fear and trying to plan a course of action that Taylani had managed to force her chill from her mind. The fire in the living area meant that the tent was reasonably warm but being soaked through meant that reasonably warm was still chilled to Taylani. She still didn't notice her skin being clammy, the random shivers that occasionally ran through her body until Waisana wrapped her ruined dress around her foot and ankle. The cold material seemed to ignite the coolness, and Taylani stopped the combing of her hair so that she could wrap her arms around her body, her hands rubbed her upper arms.
The fire in the other woman's voice when she cursed startled Taylani, though her words confused her. "A web? What do you mean by the web? How am I tied to it?" Taylani had, of course, heard about Djed and Reimancy though she never dabbled or had a desire to learn. So in effect she knew there were things that people could do that could not be explained by the common knowledge of how things worked. But of course since Drykas do not divulge webbing secrets to outsiders she had never heard of that.
Yet the thought that she would always be somehow traceable to Fallan stabbed her with pain. Not because she had expected to be allowed to go free now, because she had already seen his determination to keep her with him, though she did not know why he wanted to. She was not skillful, it is not as if there aren't other females available to him -she knew two already who's families seemed desperate to rid themselves of them and marry them off- if it was babies he wanted so badly. The why did not matter, it is what it is and now Taylani knew without a doubt that her feeling of being chained with invisible chains, though she had thought of it as the hope he dangled in front of her of free passage to Syliras was the chains. Now she realized that she was forever tied to this place, no matter the bargain.
"Then that is it. He might as well throw me in real chains." She laughed a short bitter laugh, "He very well might decide to do that anyway after this.." She added remembering his threats if she did anything to harm a child he had gotten upon her.
The fire in the other woman's voice when she cursed startled Taylani, though her words confused her. "A web? What do you mean by the web? How am I tied to it?" Taylani had, of course, heard about Djed and Reimancy though she never dabbled or had a desire to learn. So in effect she knew there were things that people could do that could not be explained by the common knowledge of how things worked. But of course since Drykas do not divulge webbing secrets to outsiders she had never heard of that.
Yet the thought that she would always be somehow traceable to Fallan stabbed her with pain. Not because she had expected to be allowed to go free now, because she had already seen his determination to keep her with him, though she did not know why he wanted to. She was not skillful, it is not as if there aren't other females available to him -she knew two already who's families seemed desperate to rid themselves of them and marry them off- if it was babies he wanted so badly. The why did not matter, it is what it is and now Taylani knew without a doubt that her feeling of being chained with invisible chains, though she had thought of it as the hope he dangled in front of her of free passage to Syliras was the chains. Now she realized that she was forever tied to this place, no matter the bargain.
"Then that is it. He might as well throw me in real chains." She laughed a short bitter laugh, "He very well might decide to do that anyway after this.." She added remembering his threats if she did anything to harm a child he had gotten upon her.
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