Sneak Peak: Reckless
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"Are you trying to get yourself killed!"
"I'm a soldier Fletcher. Dying is an occupational hazard."
"You purposefully put yourself in the most dangerous part of the battlefield, you insist on taking any and all suicide missions, you come back from scouting with more wounds then anyone else, you almost always refuse medical care, and your men have reported multiple times that you always make sure to take the brunt of any attack." He he paused his pacing to glare at her. "Have I missed anything?"
"No I think that sums it up about perfectly" Landon Growled from the doorway.
Katara sighed as she slid stiffly into her vest. "Not you too."
"Yes me too! You could've been killed."
"But I wasn't."
"And how do you know that you won't be next time?" Fletcher snarled, crossing his arms and fixing her with a stare that could freeze fire.
"I don't." She bit back, swinging her sword belt around her waist.
"And what happens if you die Katara? Huh? What happens then?" Fletcher slammed his fist against the table, raising his voice. "You have a duty to your people!"
"I don't owe them a thing!" She shouted, rounding suddenly on the prince. Her eyes glowed like a furnace, and her jaw clenched painfully. "I. Don't. Owe. Them. One. Single. Thing. And it would be best if you remembered that."
"No." His voice was deadly quiet. "You owe them everything." He slowly stalked forwards till they were nearly touching. His breath fanned her face as he towered over her.
"You are the daughter of Sire Solitaire and Dame Forrest. The crown princess of Sordia. You. Will. Not. Forsake your duty to your people."
"My duty?" She snarled "my only 'duty' is to myself. Do you know why I take those suicide missions? Because 'I' want to. Do you know why I take the brunt of an attack? Because 'I' want to. So yes, I guess I am doing my 'duty' because I am the only person who could have gotten out of those situations alive."
"Alive? This isn't living Katara. You're destroying yourself from the inside out. This is suicide."
"You don't get to decide what I am or am not doing when you yourself so blatantly disregard orders!" She snarled.
"I do not!"
She fixed him with a burning stare. "We can't win this war so you might as well go home to your people and prepare them for the worst."