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<blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 7103841" data-attributes="member: 4936">&quot;No, Honored,&quot; Amina replies. &quot;Hakiyah watch over you.&quot;The bitterness in Akilah's words was revealing, though Ankabut was not sure of precisely what they were revealing of. Was Akilah simply unused to hardship in her privilege and misunderstanding the motivations of those who had trained her? Or had there been resentment of her position within the temple, which poisoned her trainers and made them cruel when the lesson required only hardness?Either way, the result had been a failure. Here was a vizier and hakima who hated and avoided the temples.It did, perhaps, explain Akilah's surprising gentleness towards Amina though. If she believed that, as an acolyte, Amina had undergone the same training that she herself had...was suffering the same real or imagined cruelty...then such sympathy made sense.The training of a sister of the Soft Whisper was demanding, physically and emotionally, but Ankabut had never believed it cruel even in her worst moments. Always she had viewed her failures and tears as more evidence that she needed the hardship, that she still had weakness that had to be burned out of her. What would Akilah have believed, she wondered now.It made no difference to her mission, of course. None of her targets were likely to be in or associated with one of Hakiyah's temples. It just bothered her to see one as faithful to the goddess as Akilah so distant from the fellowship of other faithful.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Shayuri, post: 7103841, member: 4936"] [B]"No, Honored,"[/B] Amina replies. [B]"Hakiyah watch over you."[/B] The bitterness in Akilah's words was revealing, though Ankabut was not sure of precisely what they were revealing of. Was Akilah simply unused to hardship in her privilege and misunderstanding the motivations of those who had trained her? Or had there been resentment of her position within the temple, which poisoned her trainers and made them cruel when the lesson required only hardness? Either way, the result had been a failure. Here was a vizier and hakima who hated and avoided the temples. It did, perhaps, explain Akilah's surprising gentleness towards Amina though. If she believed that, as an acolyte, Amina had undergone the same training that she herself had...was suffering the same real or imagined cruelty...then such sympathy made sense. The training of a sister of the Soft Whisper was demanding, physically and emotionally, but Ankabut had never believed it cruel even in her worst moments. Always she had viewed her failures and tears as more evidence that she needed the hardship, that she still had weakness that had to be burned out of her. What would Akilah have believed, she wondered now. It made no difference to her mission, of course. None of her targets were likely to be in or associated with one of Hakiyah's temples. It just bothered her to see one as faithful to the goddess as Akilah so distant from the fellowship of other faithful. [/QUOTE]

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