Re: Kylie (Courage Wolf)
Palla stood there with a mixed look of curiosity and slight fear on her face as she stopped her attack on Giselle, who heaved a sigh of relief as Kylie came out. Now that Kylie was closer and could see her better, she could see that Palla as she'd named herself wasn't a full 7 feet tall, and was only about 6 and a half... give or take an inch or two, and if Kylie glanced over at where she'd been standing before when she first noticed her, she would see a rock sticking up that she must have been standing on to make her seem taller than she was. "Oh Kylie thank the gods, I thought you'd been grabbed by something and dragged off when you didn't answer me there," Giselle said, moving over and hugging Kylie with a look of relief while doing so.
"No of course I won't hit a pregnant woman, but don't just start threatening to kill someone like that, it's not nice first of all. And besides, I wasn't going to kill her, there's no good in killing unless you absolutely have to. I was going to see if she was strong, strong enough to beat me for..." Palla began saying indignantly before stopping, her cheeks flushing red as a beet as she looked away quickly so they couldn't see her face.
She set her large hammer down on the ground at that and turned around, her arms crossed as she looked in the other direction. She didn't seem all that scared of Kylie from the looks of it, at least not now anyway like she did when Kylie was talking. Though now she looked a little more like... like she was embarrassed and a little sad. "And where am I to go if I leave here? This is where I've been living for the past four months since my clan cast me out, I have nowhere else to go," Palla said, rounding on Kylie with a slightly angry and hopeless look in her eyes and it looked like she was fighting back tears. It was a look that Kylie might know if she thought on it for a few moments, one that she herself might have displayed upon hearing of the loss of her brother. "And betrayal... betrayal is when your own mother casts you out of the home you grew up in when the village shaman tells her that her daughter won't grow any more and will be a runt compared to everyone else for the rest of her life and won't be half as strong as any of the rest. That's betrayal right there," Palla added with a sniffle, a single tear sliding down her cheek as she turned away again, seeming to have lost any fight she'd had in her from before.
"GODDAMN BITCH! CALL ME WEAK! CALL ME A RUNT!" Palla screamed, taking her hammer up and swinging it with all her might at the wall of the cavern three times, smashing into one of the areas that had some gemstones in it with a resounding crunch of rock each time, knocking several of them loose where they fell to the floor and clattered on the ground. When she was done releasing her fury on the wall, Palla staggered a bit as she fell to the floor, landing square on her ass next to her hammer which she'd dropped after the third hit.
Giselle had held Kylie tightly during the entire thing after Kylie came to a halt once her scare tactics were over, shielding her lover with her own body in case Palla here got out of hand and started attacking them. When all was said and done, Giselle glanced over to Kylie with a look of pity in her eyes as she glanced back over to the tall tattooed girl. Giselle would look into Kylie's eyes, letting her know she was going to try and show kindness to this poor woman. She slipped loose from Kylie and walked over to Palla and knelt next to her, reaching out to place her hand on the tall girl's shoulder. Palla shrugged her shoulder away halfheartedly, almost as if she didn't care but was just trying to put on a brave face.
"That's awful Palla... what they did to you. I... I lost my mother and father both a long time ago myself, so it's just been me and my two sisters ever since really, so I never really got to the point that you're at now. I... I don't even know how to begin to understand how you're feeling, but... you're one of the strongest people I've ever seen in my whole life, barring my oldest sister Tina," Giselle said to Palla, a look of pity on her face as she moved to sit beside the tall girl, glancing back over at Kylie for a moment. "But... you can't let what happened rule your life though. You've got to try and move on with your life, make new friends and stuff. It's hard I understand that, but it's better than staying in this place all alone with no one to watch your back," Giselle added, with Palla just looking off into the distance of the mine where she'd come out from.
"Y-You're right... I know, and sorry about your parents and all. But it hurts. The woman I called mother... my sisters, my cousins, and aunts, and uncles all along with the rest of the village just cast me out, saying I didn't belong in a goliath's village because I wasn't one. They threw me out with nothing but the clothes on my back and a dagger," Palla said angrily before going silent, it was easy to see that she was struggling hard to hold back her tears... tears of both anger and sadness. All in all Palla looked quite pitiful really to Kylie.