If we were men ...

[jawburn_steel]

*stares* But we can't be men! We're women!

*nods emphatically* Men are for loving and fighting and looking after, not for being. We'd be lost if we were men.

*nods* If we'd been men, we wouldn't have been goddesses, calling the crowd to adore us, only gladiators, calling them to watch us die.

If we'd been men, we wouldn't have had any power over the lust of the foremen.

If we'd been men, Slate wouldn't have loved us and helped us escape.

If we'd been men, we wouldn't have been able to pretend to be whores to hide Jared.

If we'd been men, we wouldn't have had Mama Marlenusia, wouldn't have been able to learn at her knee.

If we'd been men, we might have ended up in the mines instead of the Arena.

If we'd been men, we might have been one of the boys the Slave Killer used and killed.

If we'd been men ... we would still have loved each other, though, Nira-nai. Little boys in the men's block, hand in hand.

*tilts head, smiles* Yes. And I would have killed the Slave Killer for you, Ara-love, if he touched you.

*laughs, proud* And I would have seduced him for you, Nira-nai, to let you fight in the Arena.

*fierce* I would have carried you out of the mines in my arms, if they sent you there.

*vicious* I would have broken the gates with my hands, to get us free. *grabs Nira by the back of the head, pulls their foreheads gently together* Die free, one way or another, Nira-nai, sister-soul.

*kisses her softly, laughing a little* Brother-soul, too, Ara-love. Hand in hand, to heaven's gates, and man or woman, we will have them open to receive us!

*grins, biting her lover's lips gently* Gods?

And Goddesses, all at once! *laughs* Are we not magnificent enough for both?

*grins* We are, Nira-nai. We are!

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[lion_cub]

You are more than glorious enough, no matter the gender, to exist in full grandeur!

[jawburn_steel]

*grin, twined around each other, with bloody lips*

We are, Richard-love! We are!

[lion_cub]

+moves closer, kissing them both, licking at their lips, tasting them+

You do know I can't resist either of you like that?

[jawburn_steel]

*laughs, kissing him back eagerly* Richard-love, whyever would we want you to resist us? *grins*

*licks a taste of Ara off his lips, smiles* Come into our trap, Richard-love. *shark grin* We promise to take care of you ...

[lion_cub]

+smiles, willingly settling into their 'trap'+

[jawburn_steel]

*twin wicked grins, wrapped around him - he is the best of their 'prey'*

[sumerian_lion]

+looks them over in fond admiration+

You remind me of my first daughter, in some ways. So bold, so fierce, so perfect!

[jawburn_steel]

*look back, proud and petulant, smiling at him*

She must have been special indeed, old lion!

A daughter to be proud of, as we imagine whatever parents we had would have been proud of us. *smiles*

[sumerian_lion]

Hippolyta, first of the Amazons, loyal daughter...

Oh how wild and free she could be, amongst her women, or at play with her brother!

[jawburn_steel]

*smiles* We are all better for being free, I think. *purrs softly* She sounds a beautiful woman.

*smiles at him* Not bad, old lion. Not bad. A man who can make such a daughter, he must be something himself. *grins*

[sumerian_lion]

....

I should speak of her, of Titus, of my first family...

When I have time.

[jawburn_steel]

*smiles softly* We will listen, when you have that time, old lion.

*touches him gently, smiling* Some things are good to share, yes?

[sumerian_lion]

Yes, they are, beautiful knives.

[gnarr]

If you two were men, you wouldn't be half as scary.

[jawburn_steel]

*laughs* Really? *coy* Surely we're not scary, us little girls? *grin*

*smiles* Nira-nai, be nice.

[girlrobin]

"smiles" Magnificent would be exactly the word I'd use to describe both of you - woman or man.