[wow, tuuri was right... she was a way cuter kid than lavi???
Except he's not thinking of that, he's not thinking of that at all. He just watches this memory play out, feels the slowly looming sense of dread so very clearly even while Tuuri maintains her innocence throughout. That's the terrifying part of it, to see a tragedy through a child's eyes. At least Lavi had always known they would be, even as a child. At least he'd been trained to see.
He lifts his hand to touch Tuuri's, at first tentative, then more firmly.]
...Where did you go?
[Where did they live? How did these three children survive? Were they swept up into the pages of history like all innocents, defined by the tragedy they suffered?]
[It's a past that is very familiar to Tuuri. She's had a lot of time to replay it in her mind, to wonder what went wrong back then. The answers come easy, even now.]
Onni was old enough to join the military, so the three of us moved to a base in the far north. I started working in the repair shop once I was 13, and Lalli started scouting when he turned 13 too. Onni and Lalli are mages, so there was plenty of work for them to do there. And once we realized I have a talent for learning languages, I started working as a skald in addition to my mechanic work.
It wasn't easy. But we had to do what we could. If Onni hadn't taken responsibility for us, then me and Lalli would have ended up in an orphanage.
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Date: 2023-04-01 02:28 am (UTC)Except he's not thinking of that, he's not thinking of that at all. He just watches this memory play out, feels the slowly looming sense of dread so very clearly even while Tuuri maintains her innocence throughout. That's the terrifying part of it, to see a tragedy through a child's eyes. At least Lavi had always known they would be, even as a child. At least he'd been trained to see.
He lifts his hand to touch Tuuri's, at first tentative, then more firmly.]
...Where did you go?
[Where did they live? How did these three children survive? Were they swept up into the pages of history like all innocents, defined by the tragedy they suffered?]
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Date: 2023-04-01 02:46 am (UTC)Onni was old enough to join the military, so the three of us moved to a base in the far north. I started working in the repair shop once I was 13, and Lalli started scouting when he turned 13 too. Onni and Lalli are mages, so there was plenty of work for them to do there. And once we realized I have a talent for learning languages, I started working as a skald in addition to my mechanic work.
It wasn't easy. But we had to do what we could. If Onni hadn't taken responsibility for us, then me and Lalli would have ended up in an orphanage.