[ She has to think about what kind of story she wants to tell. And considering he's made of plants, she's pretty sure that story is a true one.
She starts to tell a true story of her own, silently apologizing to Cass as she does. It's the story of a young girl raised to be a weapon, who never learned to read or write or even speak. The girl learned to read bodies instead, and became one of the most skilled fighters in the world. She took a life for the first and last time at the age of 8. Seeing a man die, watching the life leave his body on that intimate level, she knew that taking a life was a terrible thing and ran away.
Then she tells about the earthquake 8 years later, an unnamed city all but destroyed. In the chaos, the assassin was hired to take out a major official. But the girl stopped the assassination, and fought her father. Neither of them really won, but she made it clear she was never coming back to him. ]
She'd been in town for tutoring, learning English. And her tutor just so happened to be the official's daughter. The teacher found out about the girl's dad, but she could tell the girl had a good heart. The girl had no name, no family she could rely on, no home... So the teacher took her in.
[ Wait she didn't think of how to finish the story. ]
cw: child abuse and murder
[ She has to think about what kind of story she wants to tell. And considering he's made of plants, she's pretty sure that story is a true one.
She starts to tell a true story of her own, silently apologizing to Cass as she does. It's the story of a young girl raised to be a weapon, who never learned to read or write or even speak. The girl learned to read bodies instead, and became one of the most skilled fighters in the world. She took a life for the first and last time at the age of 8. Seeing a man die, watching the life leave his body on that intimate level, she knew that taking a life was a terrible thing and ran away.
Then she tells about the earthquake 8 years later, an unnamed city all but destroyed. In the chaos, the assassin was hired to take out a major official. But the girl stopped the assassination, and fought her father. Neither of them really won, but she made it clear she was never coming back to him. ]
She'd been in town for tutoring, learning English. And her tutor just so happened to be the official's daughter. The teacher found out about the girl's dad, but she could tell the girl had a good heart. The girl had no name, no family she could rely on, no home... So the teacher took her in.
[ Wait she didn't think of how to finish the story. ]
Aaaand they all lived happily ever after.