One More Red Nightmare

"Unrepentant Lotus of the Storm Sky."

Sky let out an inaudible groan at the sound of Barutai's soft spoken and calm words, she'd never heard the man speak in anything more than that reserved tone, he never had to everyone always fell silent and listened when he spoke, she was no exception. The inflection in his voice was as bad a punishment as anything, as painful as the lengthy lecture she was in for. She would have liked to claim this was the first time they had met like this, but it was far from it.

"You don't have to say my full title every time Barutai, just..."

She cut herself off before she went on, it went like this every time and she wasn't sure why she tried to get him to change. It just made her feel so damn childish, he always made her feel childish and selfish and all he'd done was say her name. She'd hated that.

"My apologies."

He always apologized when she corrected him, asked to be called simply Sky instead of her full title. Always apologized but he never stopped using her full title, sometimes she swore he lived to aggravate her and it was like he never even knew that it did.

"Why don't you tell me what happened?"

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