[It felt like a monumental effort, just to say the words. The anguish she could hear, could feel, in Chariot's voice tore at Kaede more than a grievous physical injury, and she despised herself all the more for causing it.
She swallowed, doing nothing to fend off the coming grief looming on the horizon of her next thought.]
I'm...sorry.
[Kaede's voice was a quiet, strained thing, whispered close to her Bonded's ear.]
For what I did. I...have no excuse. [The words, once pent up behind her teeth, were suddenly difficult to stop.] I...struck first, I...
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She swallowed, doing nothing to fend off the coming grief looming on the horizon of her next thought.]
I'm...sorry.
[Kaede's voice was a quiet, strained thing, whispered close to her Bonded's ear.]
For what I did. I...have no excuse. [The words, once pent up behind her teeth, were suddenly difficult to stop.] I...struck first, I...