[ what she wants to ask most is "which people" but Alina would be taking shots in the dark, if she remembered at all, and the bullet would be Jess. whatever she did with that information would land her worse than a citation.
after chewing on it for a couple of minutes, ]
Look, a safe word isn't about pain. It's an understanding. That no matter what it looks like, both of you have control. The two of you, not them.
I don't want him to have control. If that ever happens again, I want control of him.
[ the reply comes before she means it to. she can't stop herself. it's all heat and indignation. there's no understanding between her and the darkling. no peace, no compromise.
sooner or later, they are going to kill one another. everything else is foreplay. ]
I'm sorry. I'll keep in mind what you said. I'll make sure the Submissive I bring to the Realignment center knows all about safe words and that we talk about it.
[ Jess was trying to focus on the present and future, where they may still have an effect on events. nothing she knows about what happened at the car was can change it. it took a great deal of self-control not to ask anyway.
bully for her.
heat and indignation spreads across the network. Alina's appeasement falls on deaf ears. ]
[ now she's wondering, though. did he get one? did he know she had? he hadn't reached out at all. somehow it feels like an additional indignity instead of a relief that he hadn't goaded her about it. ]
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after chewing on it for a couple of minutes, ]
Look, a safe word isn't about pain.
It's an understanding.
That no matter what it looks like, both of you have control.
The two of you, not them.
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If that ever happens again, I want control of him.
[ the reply comes before she means it to. she can't stop herself. it's all heat and indignation. there's no understanding between her and the darkling. no peace, no compromise.
sooner or later, they are going to kill one another. everything else is foreplay. ]
I'm sorry.
I'll keep in mind what you said.
I'll make sure the Submissive I bring to the Realignment center knows all about safe words and that we talk about it.
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bully for her.
heat and indignation spreads across the network. Alina's appeasement falls on deaf ears. ]
It was that pretentious Drozdov dick, wasn't it
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In Ravka, we call him the Darkling.
[ as much a confirmation as anything. there's something seething and resentful about how she denies him the false identity of eryk drozdov, even. ]
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Where's his citation?
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[ now she's wondering, though. did he get one? did he know she had? he hadn't reached out at all. somehow it feels like an additional indignity instead of a relief that he hadn't goaded her about it. ]