The soldier puffed haughtily, as if she was dismissing the idea.
"Me? Scared? Blasphemy!" She declared with an angry flare of her cheeks, the freckles popping out like they were highlighted with red. Her confidence, albiet mock, was to be admired - had she not sunk her shoulders and laid her head to rest between her fingertips, massaging her temples as she went along.
she moved her head to be on one palm, the other pulled in front of her face. Her expression was odd, sharp eyes slanted towards the edges of her cheeks and eyebrows pulled to an alarming crease above her lashes. While she had been dabbling in the idea of wearing more and more make up on the days she was not designated to either team, it seemed her attempts had been dull and void that morning. The thin dash of eyeliner on each eye seemed to curl downward, as if she had given up trying to move the curl to be similar to, say, Glowblade's tail. Her usual flaring red lip stain was gone, faded marks from the day before still grazing the corners.
"I've had the burns from Royalblade for almost four years." Her eyes trailed up her arm, and while they could not see it, the burns on her neck stung. Her torso's burns would not normally be seen, but she knew good and well the medic could tell they were there. She'd patched them up plenty of times before.
"And the insignias..." She removed her other hand, tracing her fingers over the gauze across her palms.
"Jeredy said they might never go away. No one but you and him and Jinja have seen them before. How am I supposed to explain it? Oh, I got this burn not in a battle, but because I disobeyed Charlemagne for not killing a monsuno, and I got this one for basically betraying her and crawling back for forgiveness?" Her voice quivered and shifted with each sentence, the acid rising in her throat as more and more triggered pain shot through her veins.
"Bravo and Alpha and I were talking and one of them made a joke and if that's how they feel, and they haven't even seen the burns, how will the others react?" The worry in her tone spiked.
"I'm looked down upon, even with my high ranking in STORM and Core-tech combined, but.." Her rank had been risen above that of Strike Squad due to her experience with Core-Tech, but Commander Trey, Jeredy, and Jon Ace all ranked above her. While the power hummed in her blood like a war drum, the responsibility weighed down her arms like she was Atlas carrying the globe.
"What would happen if everyone saw? No one would see the soldier, they'd see the burns. I'm terrified, Rose. I don't know what to do."
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