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.｡*ﾟ+.*.｡ ❝ I know no amount of words shall ever erase my wrongdoing… ❞ she swallows, suddenly parched, ❝ but I am sorry for my actions. My service to Shao…it was never a path I chose. It was one that was forced on me at a young age. You’re no stranger to that brutish tyrant or his cruelty…he was merciless with his assassins. Perfection was all that was accepted in his creed and failure? Insubordination? They were met with punishments arguably worse than death…all that was left to do was submit. ❞ Sighing, Jade pushed up until she was sitting upright, the majority of her weight balanced on her hips.
Avoiding the other’s gaze, she continued. ❝ I’ve spent millennia numbing myself to all of the atrocities I commit under his command. Told myself my sins were a necessary evil. When I held you captive on that island I didn’t see you as I see you now. I didn’t see a man with strength of heart, courage and honor. …You were merely a means to completing the objective I was given at the time. ❞ Shaking her head and blinking back moisture, she meets Jax’s eyes again. ❝ I am deeply sorry Jackson. Truly, from the bottom of my heart. ❞
Before he even had a chance to speak back to her...he was cut short, yet perhaps it was needed. He listened to her words with ears open and attention only focused on her. This was the first time Jax had ever heard of anything of her past. And was she said was true, he was no stranger to Shao's way of ruling...one that left bodies seemingly everywhere.
Were they so different? In many ways, yes of course. Yet in one minor way...they shared something in common. Both weighted down by past actions, hating the sins committed under the control of a dark leader who held power over them. As their gaze met again, he could see the forming of tears she was seemingly fighting back. "I cannot forget the things that have happened. Those scars stick with you wherever you go." He then rested his hand close to hers. "But I forgive you. And...if you would like, I would like to see what this road has for me and you...if you'll have me."
.｡*ﾟ+.*.｡ Hearing Jackson’s words of forgiveness directed at her sent the dam of emotion Jade was keeping together bursting apart. Tears welled in her emerald gaze before spilling over onto her face, racing down both cheeks before meeting at the cleft of her chin and finally dropping onto the blankets below. She watched the man in bed with her as if he would vanish at any moment, in total awe of the sagacity he held.
Shaking herself out of her trance, Jade reached up to wipe hee tears away before meeting Jax’s eyes with a timid look. ❝ If anyone should be asking that question it should be me. ❞ She notes. ❝ But yes. I am more than willing to see this through. I suppose you could say that I’m eager to see where it leads. ❞ And it was true. Jade had always wondered what the bond between her, Kitana and the Earthrealmers would look like if the two edenians had met them all without the shackles of Shao’s rule hanging over them.
