Vs Gideons Interpretation Of Those Things - Tumblr Posts

that bit in gtn where "protesilaus" draws on gideon while she's kneeling over cytherea, and after he stands down, harrow comes up behind her to chew out cytherea about it, and she's got her thumb pressed to the place where protesilaus's sword was the entire time. like. gideon takes it as a threatening gesture in the moment, but was it? i don't think so. if anything, if feels protective. posessive. he could've killed her so easily. is she trying to check for damage, just to be sure? is she only reassuring herself that he didn't actually hurt gideon? is she trying to make the point to cytherea that gideon is spoken for, that there's someone looking out for her? is it a completely unconscious gesture, born only from her impulse to place herself between protesilaus's sword and the back of gideon's neck?

harrow is rattled by that incident on several levels and one of them, i think, is her realization of how dangerous this challenge is. she could've lost gideon. she could've lost her, right there, immediately. and of course gideon doesn't, can't appreciate just how terrifying that was for her.