[ Raven Reyes || -- more here than friendship. Not all deception... The ironic sincerity of cool blue eyes silenced her momentary --

[ Raven Reyes || -- protest, or maybe she really did see deeper, though undoubtedly she wouldn't admit it to herself right away, and --

[ Raven Reyes || -- she brusquely issued the command to let us go, that intimidating posture relaxing in an instant as if to say --

[ Raven Reyes || -- that this was a trivial delay in her schedule. The guards got a helplessly smug look of asserted dominance as I --

[ Raven Reyes || -- passed by, wielding the support of their greatest general. I ushered Raven to the car before she could turn --

[ Raven Reyes || -- back, stopping to look back at #Indra as I threw the bag in, preparing to climb in the driver's seat, my arms --

[ Raven Reyes || -- once again outstretched in a gesture of regard, friendship.┘ What would I do without you, niron? ┌She stopped --

[ Raven Reyes || -- in her tracks to offer me a caustic look, her voice all the more harsh and cutting as she nearly strained to --

[ Raven Reyes || -- force out the words. "That |means|--" I answered with a shamelessly devilish smirk before she could finish, --

[ Raven Reyes || -- nodding in agreement.┘ Oh, I |know| what it means... ┌Despite herself, she laughed, really laughed, a smile --

[ Raven Reyes || -- breaking through the disgruntlement of her expression to show pleasure and amusement, and making her all the --

[ Raven Reyes || -- more beautiful as a result. It made me feel all the more regretful that I had to leave, if only for her and the --

[ Raven Reyes || -- friendship we'd built. I'd miss that angry mug. But I don't live my life by regrets. So I left her with a smile --

[ Raven Reyes || -- and a heavy heart - because the friend beside me was in far greater need, far greater distress than #Indra would --

[ Raven Reyes || -- be for the Skai man she'd always pegged for a smooth talking scoundrel from the start. It would be easy for her --

[ Raven Reyes || -- to turn me the villain, and she'd get over it. Or not. She'd probably want my head on a |pike|. But she'd --

[ Raven Reyes || -- survive and then some. She was strong, fearless. I wasn't worried about her. And I knew, given her love of Lexa, --

[ Raven Reyes || -- that deep down she'd understand. The things we have to do for the ones we love.┘

R.I.P. #Bashindra. #Bandra? #Indrash? That sounds like a bad STD... youtu.be/Yj6V_a1-EUA

Think I'm gonna slide over to the other half of this equation... Give вraх / #вraѕѕ / вraт a follow if you're keeping up with the SL with Raven.