OSW: On All Sides, PG-13

[mistrali]

Title: On All Sides
Prompt: Suicide
Rating: PG-13
Summary and Warnings: Battle Magic fix-it/ignore-it. Content warning for suicidal ideation and child labour/child slavery, at canon level.
Words: 19

[Notes: I’m going off the Bay of Storms in assuming some part of Yanjing is coastal.

She’s surrounded by sea, but, chained to her fellow galley-slaves on both sides, Evvy abandons all thoughts of drowning.

[Tamari]

This one hit me like a brick! Beautifully phrased.

[mistrali]

Thank you!

[devilinthedetails]

You created such a powerful image with just one sentence. I can really see Evvy chained to the other galley slaves and surrounded by sea. My heart really went out to Evvy and her fellow slaves.

[mistrali]

Oct 22, 2020 2:15:29 GMT 10 devilinthedetails said:

You created such a powerful image with just one sentence. I can really see Evvy chained to the other galley slaves and surrounded by sea. My heart really went out to Evvy and her fellow slaves.

Thank you! I’m glad I managed to get the horror of poor Evvy’s situation across.

[Seek]

This is really painful, and the horror really does come across powerfully - galley slaves and drowning. Poor Evvy D:

[mistrali]

Thank you - yes, well, Evvy really is caught between a rock (unfortunately only a figurative one) and a hard place here Both awful options.