<span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family:Open Sans">Altair set his lips in a firm line as he was grabbed. He'd had absolutely enough. Enough of Cygnus, of pain. Certainly enough humiliation and rape. Altair found he liked that he'd been able to make the boy scream for his crimes against him. No, he didn't think he enjoyed it in the way Cygnus did. He wasn't a sadist, after all. It was satisfying though, impacting him enough that 'no' finally meant something. At least, he'd hurt him badly enough he didn't think he'd be coming back for a second helping. It was something, incapacitating even just the one lowly pirate. It went against his training and beliefs so deeply Altair almost wanted to laugh. They tossed him and he hit the deck hard.<br/>
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He stared at Cygnus as he came close to him, sword drawn. What did he have to fear that he hadn't already suffered? What more could Cygnus do to him? Altair bared his throat. The tears had stopped falling when the young pirate had ignored his sincere request to halt his actions. Altair tilted his chin up a little higher. He closed his eyes and felt the blade press to his skin, but it was just a kiss from the deadly metal.<br/>
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“Bleed me one more drop on this god forsaken ship and I will see you to ruin in the afterlife,” Altair told him calmly. He was prepared for death. He'd decided he was ready for it, and that few options seemed worthwhile. They'd broken him, and Altair didn't care any longer.<br/>
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“My goddess is more merciful than you, and I'd rather beg her forgiveness than yours.” He spit blood at Cygnus' feet, marking his already filthy boot. Altair stopped listening to Cygnus after that, missing the comment about the barrel and the <i>traditional way</i>. Altair was too busy praying, prostrating himself not for Cygnus, though it might appear that way.<br/>
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“<i>Tena koa, Lain. Murua ahau. E hiahia ana ahau ki te rapu whakamarie i roto i to ringa. E kore e kaha au. Ka kitea etahi tikanga i taku mate.</i>” His words sounded solemn.<br/>
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And then it occurred to him. Maybe Lain would not take him at all, for his actions, but he knew a god that certainly would.<br/>
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“<i>Yelis</i>,” Altair called upon, praying to the god of wrath instead. Yelis would understand his actions. “<i>Yelis, tukua ahau kia noho ki tenei kaipuke kia taea ai e ahau te rere</i>.” Cygnus might have known that name. He'd described him in the book he'd written in.<br/>
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“<i>Yelis, please</i>. I seek your counsel in my death. I fear <i>Lain</i> will not hear me, for I have gone against her wishes and deviated from her path.” He began prattling on in more than a few languages, desperate and hoping that his prayers would be answered. He was frightened, but anything had to be better than one more day of subjugation beneath Cygnus.</span></span>