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Callisto ([personal profile] myfavoritemurder) wrote in [community profile] villagelogs 2021-05-19 02:56 am (UTC)

Good luck with this, Malcolm, because she launches into it immediately. Usually when she talks with him, she makes some attempt to modify her speech to make it more understandable - speaking more slowly than usual, enunciating more clearly, throwing in the occasional extra synonym in case he doesn't recognize the first word used - but there's absolutely none of that in evidence here.

"Xena was the most fearsome warrior in the land," she says, starting to pace agitatedly back and forth across the deck, sandwich still in hand. "I grew up hearing stories about her; about the destruction she would leave in her wake. Everybody hated her; everybody was terrified of her. She turned my village into ASH!"

Here her voice rises into a near-shriek.

"I saw my family burn to death in front of me! I heard their dying screams! And now Xena thinks she gets to leave all that behind and start her life anew? She thinks she gets to forget, because she wants to-- to what? To be a hero now? To be celebrated and adored? Well, I won't let her."

She turns on her heel to face Raylan now, though she's still speaking Greek, and therefore still clearly speaking to Malcolm.

"Tell him my army destroyed villages using Xena's name. Tell him I did it so that no one would ever forget what she really is, and what she's done. Tell him that it feels like a knife to the gut to have your family's killer escape ANY sort of justice, to go on to be happy and loved--"

Her breath hitches, and she throws her half-eaten sandwich on the floor.

"Tell him that's why I'll never stop."

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