In about thirty years time, when someone asks her where the scars are from, she will answer, “Let’s just say, I wasn’t very good at escaping.”
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Goblin: (nervously) Berennia, sir. The Chaste.
Panel 2
Lysander: Berennia? That’s my sister’s name.
Goblin: I-i guess I was named for h–
Panel 3
Lysander: Your accent. Where are you from?
Berennia: W-w-what?
Panel 4
Lysander: Are you from Jegga?
Panel 5
(She looks terrified)
Lysander: What’s your name? Your real name? The name you had before you came to this awful place?
Panel 6
Berennia: I-i-i don’t–
Lysander: Is it Se’mak by any chance?
Panel 7
Berennia:(absolute fucking terror) You can’t know that, how do you know that?!
Panel 8
(Berennia runs for the door. Lysander stops her)
Lysander: You don’t have to run! Your secret’s safe with me!
Panel 9
Se’mak: Please, just let me go! I’ll tell him you’re who you say you are, I’ll tell him anything you want, I’ll do anything you want, just let me go, please!
Panel 10
Lysander: He wants you to spy on me?!
Se’mak: You don’t know what he’ll do to me!
Panel11
Bradley: Lysander, look at her back!
Panel 12
(He turns her around and lifts her shirt. It is cross-hatched with scars)
