[There wasn't much Kaede considered herself justified in. Not any more. She didn't have the right to. She was just a fucking monster, the boogeyman in a dozen dreams. A bad person. She had been. She always would be. Spite fueled her (petty, stupid), yet crumbled to ashes in the end. Vengeance brought her nothing but grief, even when it felt like the only justice in the world at all. None of those things meant anything, and Kaede had realized that far too late.
Her attachment to someone, that bewildering, precious thread, remained one of the few things that still mattered to her. One of the few things she could call her own. Something threatening that, someone harming someone precious to her (was it really Fang's fault?), drove Kaede to a blind rage that left reason—
(Would Kaede really have chosen differently?)
—behind.
(What did she know? She wasn't there.)
Violence was simpler.]
How fucking generous of you—!
[Earn. Like this was a game. The Chimera's face twisted in fury, the echoing pain of the bone-impact from their arms striking and the shove from the Turnskin driving her back. The sight of the damage she'd done for Fang's face was a dim, detached shock (she shouldn't have done that) before Kaede returned to herself. Her tail lashed to regain her balance, sodden feathers and all, and she lunged right back in, both claws raised to seize Fang's shoulders.]
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Her attachment to someone, that bewildering, precious thread, remained one of the few things that still mattered to her. One of the few things she could call her own. Something threatening that, someone harming someone precious to her (was it really Fang's fault?), drove Kaede to a blind rage that left reason—
(Would Kaede really have chosen differently?)
—behind.
(What did she know? She wasn't there.)
Violence was simpler.]
How fucking generous of you—!
[Earn. Like this was a game. The Chimera's face twisted in fury, the echoing pain of the bone-impact from their arms striking and the shove from the Turnskin driving her back. The sight of the damage she'd done for Fang's face was a dim, detached shock (she shouldn't have done that) before Kaede returned to herself. Her tail lashed to regain her balance, sodden feathers and all, and she lunged right back in, both claws raised to seize Fang's shoulders.]