@mxndanemagic ASKED: Sister, ever think of escaping for good? Just one more try to get out with one of the other runaway kids?
“... And go where?” She asks softly. Of course she’d thought of trying to escape the Maw again. Many times the thought has returned to her, but the older she gets the quicker that thought fades away.
She’s gotten so used to this vessel and it’s inhabitants. She knows she can survive here. She was lucky to get this life and she was grateful to even still be alive unlike all her friends from childhood. If she were to throw away this life now, there’d be no going back. There’d be no apologizing or begging for mercy.
And even if she did manage to escape the Maw... What then? What horrors would wait for her in the sea or even on the mainland? She wouldn’t know how to survive out there on her own, let alone trying to care for any children she might manage to escape with... She’s given up on freedom for herself. She’s accepted the Maw as the only home she has ever or will ever know.












