Timeline: The High Lord's Daughter, Twilight's Dawn

Possible spoilers for those who haven't read Anne Bishop's last book

Choices

Life was all about choices.

Some choices were simply natural. Eat or starve. Drink or die. Sleep or don't sleep. Kill or be killed. Simple laws of nature and desires of the flesh that were beyond anyone's control.

Some choices were simply unnerving. Meat or fish. Soup or salad. Brandy or wine. Left or right. Mystery novel or really bad fem-trash. The red one or the blue. The kind of insignificant stuff that people wrecked their brains over every day.

Some choices were hard. Kill or let live. Whore on the streets or die. Terrielle or Kaeller. Family or the loneliness of the bad old days. Those could change your life.

And some were just damn near impossible. Keep the baby, or miscarry. Tell him, or not. Trust him, or not. Stay or flee. Die later, or die now.

Everything was about choices. Some you just have to make, no matter what.

Hours after saying yes to Daemon, looking out from the window of her "unofficial" cell for the next ten month of her pregnancy, Surreal SaDiablo realized that making the choices was not the problem. No, the problem was living with them.

Inspired by Blood Cocoa's Either or, a Discworld drabble featuring Angua von Uberwald, inserted in the author's drabble collection Drabbling with Drabbles. A must read for every Discworld fan. Sorry, darling, but I couldn't resist doing this. So sorry.

Thanks to lethe2011, for always liking my stories, for some obscure reason.