[She starts, stiffens, her spine going stick-straight. There is violence in her profile - when she collapses into his arms, there is violence in her eyes. There's violence in her fists, which beat a tattoo on Dean's shoulders, but she buries her face in the crook of his neck anyway.]
[This is more than she can bear, she thinks. This is unfair. But then when has anything been fair? She is unfair, given the gift of power, the life of a bastard skaa, and the inability to keep people at her side for long. She is cruel and vindictive and childish and vile, she is the reason the Lord Ruler sought to keep them down and broken, she is a disappointment to Kelsier, the only father she ever knew.]
[But it's true, too, that this is more than she can bear. And her tears are falling, and she is crying silently, because she's afraid to cry any louder, and she always has been.]
[In the dark alleys of the city, cry loud and die. Her brother beat her for crying loud. And then other people beat her, later, when her brother went away.]
[She wonders faintly if Dean will beat her, but she's too breathless from hiding her tears to ask. So she beats him instead, hard enough to bruise, and wonders when this will stop hurting.]
[Spam : Day One]
[This is more than she can bear, she thinks. This is unfair. But then when has anything been fair? She is unfair, given the gift of power, the life of a bastard skaa, and the inability to keep people at her side for long. She is cruel and vindictive and childish and vile, she is the reason the Lord Ruler sought to keep them down and broken, she is a disappointment to Kelsier, the only father she ever knew.]
[But it's true, too, that this is more than she can bear. And her tears are falling, and she is crying silently, because she's afraid to cry any louder, and she always has been.]
[In the dark alleys of the city, cry loud and die. Her brother beat her for crying loud. And then other people beat her, later, when her brother went away.]
[She wonders faintly if Dean will beat her, but she's too breathless from hiding her tears to ask. So she beats him instead, hard enough to bruise, and wonders when this will stop hurting.]