gottgenug asked : ❝ i should bash your face in after all you’ve done. ❞ from cicero !!

S.kyrim sentence starters. / @gottgenug -- accepting

        𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐝 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬. He has been… vocal recently. Of his opinions and the image he held of how the Dark Brotherhood operated without an understanding of why the sanctuary operated this way. Perhaps he had spent too long with the Night Mother to get a grasp on reality.

        For a coven full of murderers, his threat falls on deaf ears. Astrid would wish worse on him, yet she has the poise and patience to not make it known. Cicero might have an inkling that she desires to see him dead, but for now, she’ll leave it to the back of her mind. All considered, Astrid was being generous for what she was capable of.

        Her brows raised as she spoke each word thoroughly, slowly in a way to make it engraved on his mind as she leaned over to face him face-to-face. ❝ Need I remind you of our single rule, Cicero? Or, rather, what the Dark Brotherhood tenets spoke of? I would think you of all people would remember the tenet of not harming a member of your family. ❞ Whatever it stated exactly, Astrid forgot, but that hardly mattered when those tenets served no purpose here. For a time, the Dark Brotherhood abided by these rules, but it ultimately led to their undoing. Cicero had no idea what Astrid had to sacrifice to gain her position in the Dark Brotherhood.