[She rocks her hands into his muscle, moving in silence for a time, up his arms, down his back, using that strength of her hands to break apart the tension. There are places she can tell that he's probably used to being sore, and she works there for a long moment.]
My home is in the base of a jungle, against a series of mountains. It's been independent for centuries, a small kingdom, wedged between the sea a river so wide that one of your ships could navigate it. There are legends about us. They say that the jungle was where the first tigers came from.
[She keeps pressing.]
It is wilder than here. Less civilized. But richer. The jungle is thicker, the ocean is more savage. We kept the English and the Portuguese at bay.
[She almost never talks about India; she almost never talks about this. She misses home.]
The sky is bluer there, I think. Maybe it's always bluer, when you think of home.
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[She rocks her hands into his muscle, moving in silence for a time, up his arms, down his back, using that strength of her hands to break apart the tension. There are places she can tell that he's probably used to being sore, and she works there for a long moment.]
My home is in the base of a jungle, against a series of mountains. It's been independent for centuries, a small kingdom, wedged between the sea a river so wide that one of your ships could navigate it. There are legends about us. They say that the jungle was where the first tigers came from.
[She keeps pressing.]
It is wilder than here. Less civilized. But richer. The jungle is thicker, the ocean is more savage. We kept the English and the Portuguese at bay.
[She almost never talks about India; she almost never talks about this. She misses home.]
The sky is bluer there, I think. Maybe it's always bluer, when you think of home.