worse than your father is a high bar for vasily to have met.
[ vasily had lorded his shadow over her like a python, waiting to squeeze her into compliance — but king pyotr had been a different breed of monster altogether. a creature of old lore, slithering into the beds of unsuspecting women — reigning over their bodies and their nightmares, more than he had ever reigned over ravka in its entirety.
the mere memory of it sets her on a course toward sickness, sloshing around in her stomach. she swallows down the nausea, forces herself to confront that one accusation that's underlined her responses — ]
if that's what you assumed i was asking, i'm certain i already have my answer. but you know i have to ask. were you?
[ intending to. there's shockingly little amount of judgment, just yet; had she not deposed the darkling just the same, ruthless and efficient at the end? vasily's greatest crime had been his foolishness, yes, but it's as nikolai says — the whole of his family has been complicit. vasily would have only been another fist pummeling grisha into the dirt.
cw: allusions to sexual abuse
[ vasily had lorded his shadow over her like a python, waiting to squeeze her into compliance — but king pyotr had been a different breed of monster altogether. a creature of old lore, slithering into the beds of unsuspecting women — reigning over their bodies and their nightmares, more than he had ever reigned over ravka in its entirety.
the mere memory of it sets her on a course toward sickness, sloshing around in her stomach. she swallows down the nausea, forces herself to confront that one accusation that's underlined her responses — ]
if that's what you assumed i was asking, i'm certain i already have my answer.
but you know i have to ask. were you?
[ intending to. there's shockingly little amount of judgment, just yet; had she not deposed the darkling just the same, ruthless and efficient at the end? vasily's greatest crime had been his foolishness, yes, but it's as nikolai says — the whole of his family has been complicit. vasily would have only been another fist pummeling grisha into the dirt.
his was no great death to mourn, in the end. ]