While Roland spoke she found Agni and Ignis in the crowd and then looked to the two she hadn't found earlier, the fat man beside Tamir, and the one named Henry Jacquard. In both instances she slid her hair back with two fingers, the other three exposed, and then put both hands back in her lap. Roland's speech came to its end and the idea of saying anything at all hadn't really occurred to her, but it did seem appropriate that she didn't allow him to do all of the talking. So she nodded just slightly, and stood, expelled her nerves with one careful exhale and allowed herself to regard the many people in front of her. While Roland might not have been the greatest speech giver Nariko was quite relaxed. She spoke with a natural, giving warmth, her eyes bright and loving as always.
"When I was very young my father brought me to Gilead. No one from his line revered the gunslingers more than him, no one respected their origins and took them to heart more thoroughly, and so you might imagine what such a trip could mean to him, a man that had fought his own wars and came out of them with a smile and yet more kindness. I will skip the finer details and share the words that make me the woman that I am today: 'All people bleed the same, we understand suffering even if it should be felt in many different ways, for as many different reasons. Sadness, pain, injuries both physical and not, are a part of you and of everyone you will ever meet, but so is happiness. So is relief. We are capable of impossible good, of love, because we do know pain, because one has the choice to decide that pain is not all we will feel. There is not one person who is without the strength to make this decision, to open themselves to happiness, even if it takes years to make that choice.'" She paused and her happy but somewhat sad smile was not an act, it was half caught in a memory that she had to pull herself from.
"As you might imagine my father was a true romantic, but I have always agreed with him. When I remember him it is always on that day, though the world has moved on since then as you all understand. Many of you will feel as you do and I would never fault you, nor ask you to pretend otherwise, you have your reasons and they aren't to be trivialized. I would only have you know that through your pain, through your sadness, your injuries, and your suffering, that the love I felt for this place and all who are here as a child has only grown as I have become a woman. It is patient, unyielding, strong, and most of all permanent, and the only thing in this life that is stronger is how I feel for my husband, and ka itself. If being so overjoyed to have shared this day with all of you, truly the happiest day that any woman could feel when she is joined with the man of bother her girlish and practical dreams makes me a romantic as my father was then so be it. Ka wills me here to all of you, and I am only grateful for it, for the joy and for all other things, and I hope that one day you feel the same for me."
That was all. She calmly sat herself down and beamed at Roland quite naturally, after all of that she couldn't do anything less than that.
don't ever ask Nariko to give speeches they will be long and saccharine and faceplam inducing
"When I was very young my father brought me to Gilead. No one from his line revered the gunslingers more than him, no one respected their origins and took them to heart more thoroughly, and so you might imagine what such a trip could mean to him, a man that had fought his own wars and came out of them with a smile and yet more kindness. I will skip the finer details and share the words that make me the woman that I am today: 'All people bleed the same, we understand suffering even if it should be felt in many different ways, for as many different reasons. Sadness, pain, injuries both physical and not, are a part of you and of everyone you will ever meet, but so is happiness. So is relief. We are capable of impossible good, of love, because we do know pain, because one has the choice to decide that pain is not all we will feel. There is not one person who is without the strength to make this decision, to open themselves to happiness, even if it takes years to make that choice.'" She paused and her happy but somewhat sad smile was not an act, it was half caught in a memory that she had to pull herself from.
"As you might imagine my father was a true romantic, but I have always agreed with him. When I remember him it is always on that day, though the world has moved on since then as you all understand. Many of you will feel as you do and I would never fault you, nor ask you to pretend otherwise, you have your reasons and they aren't to be trivialized. I would only have you know that through your pain, through your sadness, your injuries, and your suffering, that the love I felt for this place and all who are here as a child has only grown as I have become a woman. It is patient, unyielding, strong, and most of all permanent, and the only thing in this life that is stronger is how I feel for my husband, and ka itself. If being so overjoyed to have shared this day with all of you, truly the happiest day that any woman could feel when she is joined with the man of bother her girlish and practical dreams makes me a romantic as my father was then so be it. Ka wills me here to all of you, and I am only grateful for it, for the joy and for all other things, and I hope that one day you feel the same for me."
That was all. She calmly sat herself down and beamed at Roland quite naturally, after all of that she couldn't do anything less than that.