Drabble-A-Day: Dragon Age, Neve Gallus
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theunsinkablesapphoPrompt - Irk [verb]: to be irritating, wearisome, or vexing to
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Leyre de Riva was deliberately trying to irk her. That was the only sensible explanation. Neve closed her eyes and rubbed her fingertips hard into her temples. It was not enough to drive away the rising pain in her head. Nor did it stop the grating, discordant, tortured screams of lute strings being plucked from filling her small apartment. There was nowhere to hide. The shy mumbling about impressing Maevaris was clearly a lie. Or de Riva was delusional. She would tolerate it, because Silva had asked her to “help the kid out.” She was such a sucker for Silva.
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Leyre de Riva was deliberately trying to irk her. That was the only sensible explanation. Neve closed her eyes and rubbed her fingertips hard into her temples. It was not enough to drive away the rising pain in her head. Nor did it stop the grating, discordant, tortured screams of lute strings being plucked from filling her small apartment. There was nowhere to hide. The shy mumbling about impressing Maevaris was clearly a lie. Or de Riva was delusional. She would tolerate it, because Silva had asked her to “help the kid out.” She was such a sucker for Silva.
