For biting? Never figured it out, but it's always been between that and kicking with the animals I've run into.
For faith? Those you'll have to find on your own. That's the nature of faith.
For choosing you? You decided, against the weight of our cultivation world's regard, to stand by me. You've not turned away from the best or worst we've seen here. You've made mistakes. You've sometimes apologised. You've sparred with plain steel and the night at our backs. You've spoken endlessly in my ear to drown out the command of the dead. You try to run when I say I want you too, and you come back anyway, as dumb as I am. You share a sense of justice that protects more than ourselves. You've tried saving what most would say isn't possible. You've opened your heart to child after child, and you will again.
I didn't choose you because you're perfect, or handsome, or rich. Not because you can protect me, or because you have before.
I chose you because you still want to stand at my side, even when we fight between us, even where we disagree. In lows and highs and where we have no authority but a Scorpion's purchased grace. I chose you because you panicked and ran off in my spare robes, leaving your ribbon around my wrist, with twelve ancestors to witness. I continue to choose you, because even when you kicked me out of our bed, you kept my brother fed and safe. Because you look after the others, even when they have no idea that's what you're doing at all.
Or were you asking after something else? I'm feeling bare, here, and I'm fully clothed!
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For faith? Those you'll have to find on your own. That's the nature of faith.
For choosing you? You decided, against the weight of our cultivation world's regard, to stand by me. You've not turned away from the best or worst we've seen here. You've made mistakes. You've sometimes apologised. You've sparred with plain steel and the night at our backs. You've spoken endlessly in my ear to drown out the command of the dead. You try to run when I say I want you too, and you come back anyway, as dumb as I am. You share a sense of justice that protects more than ourselves. You've tried saving what most would say isn't possible. You've opened your heart to child after child, and you will again.
I didn't choose you because you're perfect, or handsome, or rich. Not because you can protect me, or because you have before.
I chose you because you still want to stand at my side, even when we fight between us, even where we disagree. In lows and highs and where we have no authority but a Scorpion's purchased grace. I chose you because you panicked and ran off in my spare robes, leaving your ribbon around my wrist, with twelve ancestors to witness. I continue to choose you, because even when you kicked me out of our bed, you kept my brother fed and safe. Because you look after the others, even when they have no idea that's what you're doing at all.
Or were you asking after something else? I'm feeling bare, here, and I'm fully clothed!