Eventually, they ran out of cows. [ Fixed, she goes on. ] The trouble was, of course, it was common for English soldiers to beat their servants half to death if they felt so. Not all of them were Lycan or Vampire, I knew that much. They were just men, who knew that they would face no justice in our land, by our laws. So it was not strange for their servants to just disappear in the middle of the night because they had beaten their dressing boy to death in a drunken stupor. They could, if they just wanted to, just make the body and thus, questions, disappear. Even the lowest soldier had that surety.
But eventually, men and women would disappear off the roads between villages. Bodies... started to be found. [ She swallows, blood, blood still. Her nails flick against each other. A tap, tap, tap. Her leg twitching like now, even now, the stories might be enough to conjure them. More than that, however, some readiness to that truth. She is ready, now, even now, in a comfortable small room, to fight them. ] Clawed.
But Hindustan has lions, tigers, rhinos. Many creatures that could maul a man or woman like that. They had ample ways to hide themselves. But it was one of the Officers, a man who had been good to me, called Ellis, who told me the word. Lycan. Half-breed, when we saw a man only an hour dead whose body had been ripped limb from limb. He said the only time he had seen this was after a Half-Breed attacked. I had never seen one before... but I would.
My people never trusted the English, so they came to me, in the middle of the night. He was an Uncle, and he tore in through the halls of the palace screaming for me. I was still their Rani who swore to protect them. Maybe I should have gone to the English then and there so that it couldn't be denied later. He said, that a monster was in his brother's house, and he feared for their lives. I saw only the blood and his panic. I did not stop to think, I called my close guards, and I went with him immediately.
[ Dull, ugly, and quiet she gives a faint smile, she turns to look at Kitty. ] Have you ever seen a person eat another person, Kitty?
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Date: 2019-01-13 01:55 pm (UTC)But eventually, men and women would disappear off the roads between villages. Bodies... started to be found. [ She swallows, blood, blood still. Her nails flick against each other. A tap, tap, tap. Her leg twitching like now, even now, the stories might be enough to conjure them. More than that, however, some readiness to that truth. She is ready, now, even now, in a comfortable small room, to fight them. ] Clawed.
But Hindustan has lions, tigers, rhinos. Many creatures that could maul a man or woman like that. They had ample ways to hide themselves. But it was one of the Officers, a man who had been good to me, called Ellis, who told me the word. Lycan. Half-breed, when we saw a man only an hour dead whose body had been ripped limb from limb. He said the only time he had seen this was after a Half-Breed attacked. I had never seen one before... but I would.
My people never trusted the English, so they came to me, in the middle of the night. He was an Uncle, and he tore in through the halls of the palace screaming for me. I was still their Rani who swore to protect them. Maybe I should have gone to the English then and there so that it couldn't be denied later. He said, that a monster was in his brother's house, and he feared for their lives. I saw only the blood and his panic. I did not stop to think, I called my close guards, and I went with him immediately.
[ Dull, ugly, and quiet she gives a faint smile, she turns to look at Kitty. ] Have you ever seen a person eat another person, Kitty?