what to wear when…putting away old weapons and sharpening new ones. mercilessness and madness may be the best swords but compassion is the best shield. compassion is the armor that a person must wear closest to her skin, the metal scales sleek and cool against goose-pimpled flesh. compassion protects her from her enemies by encouraging pity instead of rage. hatred rusts and clatters; pity glints and guards. compassion is a shining shelter in which to survive the daily wars that a woman must fight. oh, she knows her way around a weapon - knows its weight in her hand, know how it feels to slide a blade into a man, how it first is strangled by sinews but eventually pushes through like butter, knows her footwork well and true - but never slips it from her sheath, choosing to conquer her enemies instead with the thick, battered shield of compassion. to have a stocked armory is a soldier’s task; to know which arms to bear when is knight’s. (in response to this.) post 57 of an infinity-part series

what to wear when…putting away old weapons and sharpening new ones. mercilessness and madness may be the best swords but compassion is the best shield. compassion is the armor that a person must wear closest to her skin, the metal scales sleek and cool against goose-pimpled flesh. compassion protects her from her enemies by encouraging pity instead of rage. hatred rusts and clatters; pity glints and guards. compassion is a shining shelter in which to survive the daily wars that a woman must fight. oh, she knows her way around a weapon - knows its weight in her hand, know how it feels to slide a blade into a man, how it first is strangled by sinews but eventually pushes through like butter, knows her footwork well and true - but never slips it from her sheath, choosing to conquer her enemies instead with the thick, battered shield of compassion. to have a stocked armory is a soldier’s task; to know which arms to bear when is knight’s. (in response to this.)

post 57 of an infinity-part series