There were many words that one would use to describe Mesa.
Accurate...
Lethal...
Steadfast...
The gunslinger frame, the girl who could put bullets through the eyes of twenty Grineer marines in a twentieth of that time. The sharpshooter who wore a blindfold purely because she desired the challenge, a craving to push herself for that perfect shot, to make things difficult and then breeze right through them anyways. To make it look easy.
Another word, less used, less considered.
Sensitive.
Mesa lived in the dark, swaddling her eyes to shield them from the outside world, charging her other senses. Hearing, Touch, Taste, and Smell. Even without seeing the battlefield she ruled it. A queen of cordite and spent casings.
She heard the footsteps of the Grineer Marines making their way across the Martian sand. She tasted the wind that curved along the cliff face to rush past her, shaping itself to the valley and showing her the form it took.
She felt the shift of her vest against the swell of her chest, the shift of her tight belts against the cleft between her legs.
It was... Distracting...
Sensitivity was a gift, yet for Mesa, it had also become a curse. She was not sure when or how, but she had noticed things lately that she simply haad not considered before. Tightness against her body, the press of her clothes against her skin, a dozen small distractions tickling at her senses, teasing forth an ember of something she did not entirely understand into her stomach. A heat that swelled from gentle glow to molten urge and pooled between her legs. Making it hard to think, making her want something, but what?
She did not know.
An angry shift of her shoulders, a shrug, pushing the desires away, back, leaving them to simmer rather than trying to confront the incomprehensible wishes they brought her.
She raised her Sybaris and opened fire, the doubled report echoing off the cliffsides as the battle was joined.
Accurate...
Lethal...
Steadfast...
The gunslinger frame, the girl who could put bullets through the eyes of twenty Grineer marines in a twentieth of that time. The sharpshooter who wore a blindfold purely because she desired the challenge, a craving to push herself for that perfect shot, to make things difficult and then breeze right through them anyways. To make it look easy.
Another word, less used, less considered.
Sensitive.
Mesa lived in the dark, swaddling her eyes to shield them from the outside world, charging her other senses. Hearing, Touch, Taste, and Smell. Even without seeing the battlefield she ruled it. A queen of cordite and spent casings.
She heard the footsteps of the Grineer Marines making their way across the Martian sand. She tasted the wind that curved along the cliff face to rush past her, shaping itself to the valley and showing her the form it took.
She felt the shift of her vest against the swell of her chest, the shift of her tight belts against the cleft between her legs.
It was... Distracting...
Sensitivity was a gift, yet for Mesa, it had also become a curse. She was not sure when or how, but she had noticed things lately that she simply haad not considered before. Tightness against her body, the press of her clothes against her skin, a dozen small distractions tickling at her senses, teasing forth an ember of something she did not entirely understand into her stomach. A heat that swelled from gentle glow to molten urge and pooled between her legs. Making it hard to think, making her want something, but what?
She did not know.
An angry shift of her shoulders, a shrug, pushing the desires away, back, leaving them to simmer rather than trying to confront the incomprehensible wishes they brought her.
She raised her Sybaris and opened fire, the doubled report echoing off the cliffsides as the battle was joined.