They have never been able to; and they never will be able to if what I have heard of my future is correct. I.. confess I know not how to balance it.
I do what I must for the good of my family, as I have been expected to since I was born. But I fear it is not enough.
[ she closes her eyes, digging her fingers further into the fabric of her skirts. ] Were you afraid at the first, of the things you saw?
Yes.. my people and my religion both condemn such things. Women even so much as suspected of them are tied to stakes and burnt alive for witchcraft. And I am terrified still, because this aside, I can do other things which might hurt others if I used that power. I have tried to pretend they exist not, but yet I am assailed by visions and remember. They say that my mother's line is descended from a river goddess of Burgundy.
[ she looks up at galadriel then, for some reason drawn and lulled into trusting her with this. she does not judge; she understands. and elizabeth tries to smile, resulting in a faint shadow of one upon her lips. ] There is nothing at all fearsome about you. It.. is ever thus that people fear that which they know not.
And I know that I am guilty of it in my own case. [ but she sees death and suffering and loss and her mother uses her own power for vengeance and ambition only. i.e. the wrong reasons. it's honestly no wonder that she is terrified. ]
I have not, for none know that I possess it but for my mother and sisters. And now you, Your Grace. [ eru.. is this another name for god? it sounds a lot like it, and so she makes herself smile a bit more, nodding. ] I suppose we are; for God has many names. And the answer is simple; I understand it not. I know little of it, except that I see suffering and death and can do naught to stop it.
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I do what I must for the good of my family, as I have been expected to since I was born. But I fear it is not enough.
[ she closes her eyes, digging her fingers further into the fabric of her skirts. ] Were you afraid at the first, of the things you saw?
Yes.. my people and my religion both condemn such things. Women even so much as suspected of them are tied to stakes and burnt alive for witchcraft. And I am terrified still, because this aside, I can do other things which might hurt others if I used that power. I have tried to pretend they exist not, but yet I am assailed by visions and remember. They say that my mother's line is descended from a river goddess of Burgundy.
[ she looks up at galadriel then, for some reason drawn and lulled into trusting her with this. she does not judge; she understands. and elizabeth tries to smile, resulting in a faint shadow of one upon her lips. ] There is nothing at all fearsome about you. It.. is ever thus that people fear that which they know not.
And I know that I am guilty of it in my own case. [ but she sees death and suffering and loss and her mother uses her own power for vengeance and ambition only. i.e. the wrong reasons. it's honestly no wonder that she is terrified. ]
I have not, for none know that I possess it but for my mother and sisters. And now you, Your Grace. [ eru.. is this another name for god? it sounds a lot like it, and so she makes herself smile a bit more, nodding. ] I suppose we are; for God has many names. And the answer is simple; I understand it not. I know little of it, except that I see suffering and death and can do naught to stop it.