#withaknife

[mvndrvke]

@withaknife​​ gets a starter!  inej + harij

It’s surreal to see her. Harij didn’t think he’d ever see Inej again, but here she is. Here she is on the deck of the ship. A few other members of the crew of the Hummingbird had mentioned they’d be taking on a few new people, but never in a million years did Harij think one of those people would be his sister. 

Maybe he’s imagining it. Maybe it’s not really her. Harij walks across the deck, stopping a few paces back from her. “Inej?” he says hesitantly. 

[obrechenniye]

⤷ ✧ @withaknife said, ❝ it’s not gambling to play against someone who’s no good. it’s common sense. ❞ for jesper.

❛ and, remarkably, that takes all the fun out of it. ❜ jesper’s words are light as he sweeps his winnings toward him across the table. they’re paltry in comparison to the sum he’d lost the previous evening, but he’ll take even the small victory. at least, he’ll take it as a victory with luck upon his side, or with an expert bluff… if it’s merely his opponent’s lacking skills, then it’s really no victory at all. ❛ why’d you go and say that? I was having such a good night. ❜

with a sigh and a shake of his head, he scans the crowd perfunctorily. ❛ could’ve ended on a good note, but now I’m going to have to re-earn my reputation. ❜

[wylanvanarchive]

@withaknife liked for a lyric one-liner

"When it's back to work again, think about your friends and the good times they portend."

[stcrmhund]

@withaknife asked: ❛  well, i’m sorry, but you should have been more careful.  ❜

Dusting off his jacket, Nikolai leans back against the wall, chin plastered to his chest, quasi-pathetic as he gazed in Inej's direction. A confidence game isn't going to work here, it never does with the folks from Ketterdam, they know it almost as well as him, so he draws himself inward, hazel eyes wide and unassuming. ⠀⠀ ⠀ ❛⠀⠀ ⠀ I was being careful.⠀⠀ ⠀ ❜⠀⠀ ⠀

🐝  *  ―  𝑩𝑨𝑹𝑩𝑰𝑬 𝑰𝑵 𝑻𝑯𝑬 𝑵𝑼𝑻𝑪𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑲𝑬𝑹 𝑺𝑬𝑵𝑻𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 𝑺𝑻𝑨𝑹𝑻𝑬𝑹𝑺.

[obrechenniye]

⤷ ✧ @withaknife said, ❝ i can bear my pain so long as it has meaning. ❞ for nina.

she stops what she's doing with an abruptness that startles even her, eyes narrowing as she turns to face inej and crosses her arms before her. ❛ meaning is all relative. ❜ she doesn't intend to be curt, however blunt the statement. ❛ by which I mean, you can make up meaning for just about anything. and even the most meaningful thing can prove meaningless the next day. ❜ the world was cruel like that, stripping away meaning where it had been and concealing the places it exists.

she could just say that she's worried. she could be the one emotionally intelligent individual in the entire group. she's tired of always being the only emotionally intelligent and emotionally open one, and so instead she clarifies only, ❛ by which I guess I really mean to say that, waiting on meaning to make something bearable... seems like gamble. ❜

[princguard-a]

Lark strolled beside the Wraith, her gaze surveyed the Spinning Wheel for any sign of life. Her blade remained steadfast in her hand. She found the silence eerie and because of it she could feel a chill run up her spine. Whatever was left of anyone hiding there; it seemed less and less they would find anyone alive.

" How terrible." she found herself muttering as she glanced around the wrecked corridor.

" So much destruction and for what..." she grumbled more as she felt heat rise in her body, anger bubbling within her. The Darkling's coup ended with his destruction but they lost people too.

" Saints..." she exhaled and looked to Inej. ( @withaknife ) " I would be lying if I said I didn't appreciate your company."

[obrechenniye]

⤷ ✧ @withaknife said, ❝ history needs shepherds, not butchers. ❞ for tolya.

the gaze he casts her is sidelong, lasting little more than a fleeting moment before he returns to prior task of sharpening the blade. ❛ are you sure they’re always so different? ❜ at a purely literal level, would not a shepherd slaughter an animal too old or too injured, for the animal’s own well-being? and would not a butcher’s work feed a family, a whole town?

‘at a literal level’ is the whole problem, of course, but tolya’s yet to see anyone make a difference without breaking a few less-than-metaphorical skulls. figuratively speaking. actual skulls optional.

❛ besides, history needs a lot of things. if everyone was a shepherd, there’d be no history worth remembering. and, neither tamar nor I would last a day as a shepherd. ❜

[brasil420]

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