⇁ 001. In many ways, he practically served as her living 'wound man' as a novice in her initial beginnings in service with his unit. Finding his way to her side near the firelight of their camp became a semi-frequent occurrence. From sinew, muscle, bone, and blood—she knows well the contour of his body, and where nearly every knick, scar and birthmark can likely be found. Many in which she remembers just how he received them and how she attended to them.
⇁ 002. Entrenched in worldly conflicts and disputes they had since grown deeply familiar with, a quiet intimacy was forged in those harrowing years of war and bloodshed. Marching from one horrific battlefield and into the next, between war and sacred funerary rites, she eventually came to inherit an element of his propensity towards violence and with that, his trust. What he did not teach her she learned gradually as she accumulated experiences and established herself with the echo of his learned mercilessness. While he may not have been her first 'guide', he was the one who tampered her to the immediate horrors of warfare, sullied her with it in spite of her own initial reluctance to trace any of his same exact steps. One must ask, what is choice? A luxury. And they both thoroughly understand that.
⇁ 003. He has a marking upon his body from her, placed around his middle and index finger that corresponds with one of hers-- a promise, an attachment. A small sign of their deepening bond before the inevitable. Though some of her reasons remain unspoken.
