[If Lightning weren't wearing such a serious face, Crowe might laugh. Instead she only smirks and half shakes her head.]
Not exactly. We're meant for the front lines, not fancy balls or whatever, most of the time. But if you can fight and follow orders, you can dance. Even that slow stuff.
[Then she thinks of the actual royalty she's grown to know much better in the last year.]
Or, uh...I guess they all pretend to for some reason? But yeah, even in the middle of a war they have that dinner and dance thing going on. We don't get invited.
[They're soldiers. Outsiders. Refugees. All reminders of the war, all at once. Also, not too refined.]
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Lightning - Helisium 2018
Date: 2018-08-21 03:53 pm (UTC)[If Lightning weren't wearing such a serious face, Crowe might laugh. Instead she only smirks and half shakes her head.]
Not exactly. We're meant for the front lines, not fancy balls or whatever, most of the time. But if you can fight and follow orders, you can dance. Even that slow stuff.
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Date: 2018-08-24 01:20 am (UTC)[And Lightning would be more inclined to agree if the mere thought of dancing didn't make her so nervous!]
This stuff's pretty showy anyway... I can only imagine they had way too many of these kinds of parties around there. Wouldn't wanna get sick of them.
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Date: 2018-09-04 05:02 am (UTC)[Then she thinks of the actual royalty she's grown to know much better in the last year.]
Or, uh...I guess they all pretend to for some reason? But yeah, even in the middle of a war they have that dinner and dance thing going on. We don't get invited.
[They're soldiers. Outsiders. Refugees. All reminders of the war, all at once. Also, not too refined.]
That's not a complaint.