It is a very new feeling. Not a bad one. (To touch in this way at all is not something she often gets to do. Miquella has been gone a long time, and her hands rest on armaments far more than anything else.)
She does not linger too long. When Malenia pulls away, she is careful not to catch any of his beautiful feathers in the creases of her armor.
“You are lovely. Thank you for this.”
A breath. It is strange to have to explain this. “I should warn you as well. My body is cursed with an affliction known as the Scarlet Rot. My armor is consecrated against it, and you are not yet in a position to be harmed by it.” The Cleanrot Knights were a different matter. “But that I yet stand with my mind still whole is entirely unique. I ask that you warn me—and everyone else—if you encounter a red and ivory fungus you have never seen before. Unalloyed gold and fire will hold it at bay.
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It is a very new feeling. Not a bad one. (To touch in this way at all is not something she often gets to do. Miquella has been gone a long time, and her hands rest on armaments far more than anything else.)
She does not linger too long. When Malenia pulls away, she is careful not to catch any of his beautiful feathers in the creases of her armor.
“You are lovely. Thank you for this.”
A breath. It is strange to have to explain this. “I should warn you as well. My body is cursed with an affliction known as the Scarlet Rot. My armor is consecrated against it, and you are not yet in a position to be harmed by it.” The Cleanrot Knights were a different matter. “But that I yet stand with my mind still whole is entirely unique. I ask that you warn me—and everyone else—if you encounter a red and ivory fungus you have never seen before. Unalloyed gold and fire will hold it at bay.
“And if you ever happen to fall ill… I am sorry.”