Darkest Dungeon: Ancestor's Journal Readings
dhalen for Unnamed Shieldbreaker (A Beautiful Thing)
The Unnamed Shieldbreaker was once a dancer in a far off land. She was so beautiful and graceful that she was purchased by a Vizier. However she hates her life in the Gilded Cage, and when the time came she took her chance to escape. Unfortunately during the escape, her arm was trapped under a pile of rubble and was then bitten by a snake. Forced to choose, the Shieldbreaker cut off her hand to stop the poison from spreading. No longer a "Beautiful Thing" she feels relieved at the freedom she has been given by the snake
She should come off as jaded and spiteful of her life as a "Beautiful Thing" and relieved after she cuts off her hand, as she is finally free of that life.
An Arabic accent is optional, as long as it is believable and consistent
(Disgusted) Such exquisiteness must be admired, they say. And so I am made to dance for their desperate, dust-pitted faces; for their watery, bloodshot eyes; their cracked, grinning lips. I am not a person to this debauched audience, I am an exotic wonder. I am a beautiful thing.
(Determined not to be owned by anyone) As the wagon careens along the mountain road, I make my choice. I will not go to the Vizier. I will not be this man’s prize; his plaything.
(Panicked but resolved to escape)The knife is dull, and I must work quickly. In my panic, I saw, hack, and gouge. My cries are met with the silent indifference of the dunes, the chill of the desert wind, the cold light of the moon.
