AU - MAGNI & LAKSHMI

[mahalakshmi]

if you'll be my light, i'll be your shelter

i. first meeting | a non existent engagement and a hasty marriage ii. a tempertantrum in a thunderstorm | sticks and stones may break my bone but words will leave me with crippling anxiety (and a headcold) iii. a kindness of intimacies | nsfw, sometimes, love is like falling into an icy lake iv. just like the battle of troy, there is nothing subtle here | when the world conspires to consistently make you insecure about your wife.

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[mahalakshmi]

"I am not saying, anyone! I am not saying some beggar off the street, I am talking about a whole land, a whole fiefdom, think of your people - what if they needed help, and you turned to them and they would rather let you starve!"

This is not like their last argument, it's something that mattered far more, and to it, she wasn't interested in flouncing off, walking away.

"We can change their minds, we can. We can appease them, I know we can, but we can't let them hurt innocent people for their pride."

[villieldr]

"That family has harmed these people in generations past, if I take from my people's mouth to feed theirs then what does that say?" What possible resolution is there to this? How in the name of all the gods is she to do the right thing? She looks to Lakshmi desperately, begging her to understand.

"I—" Magni licks her lips, chewing on the lower one now that she isn't before the council and is free to give in to her uncertain habits. "They helped my father make Talonhold as strong as she is now, flawed as that is I don't want to— I don't want to make a mistake that hurts all my people. They are innocent, too."