[Benedikta's gaze drops to the ground, her own confidence wavering at the girl's answer. Yet another who had nothing and no one left, and who had fallen for the tricks of a man who would then take advantage of her. She knows the feeling too well, and the fear that comes with trying to step away from it and into the unknown. She knows what it is like to seek security, and to fight for one's life.
Something twists violently in her chest, and she clicks her tongue under her breath, the harshness of the sound startling the girl, and makes her wonder if she'd done or said something wrong. Benedikta shakes it off with a toss of her head.]
And no place to go?
[The girl gives a shake of hers, and she has to wonder just how much she had been relying on him.
She turns to Arlecchino then.]
I've a place that she could stay in the meanwhile. On my crew's island.
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Something twists violently in her chest, and she clicks her tongue under her breath, the harshness of the sound startling the girl, and makes her wonder if she'd done or said something wrong. Benedikta shakes it off with a toss of her head.]
And no place to go?
[The girl gives a shake of hers, and she has to wonder just how much she had been relying on him.
She turns to Arlecchino then.]
I've a place that she could stay in the meanwhile. On my crew's island.