She doesn’t even mind so much anymore when they laugh at calling her Nott the Brave, because she can take a thing from one of them and make up for it.
Sometimes the itch gets so bad that she’ll take from the other goblins- she stole a coin from Wib and a barrette from Poke and she’s so good at it that none of them ever think about maybe the chieftain’s daughter is the one taking everything. She nips through travelers while her brothers and her sisters attack, and she takes the beautiful thing before everyone else starts going through and rifling through the pockets, even though she’s never one of the ones doing any kind of cutting. It gets to be a sort of itch, a need, a desperation that she can’t ever leave. She’s quiet and she’s sneaky and when they laugh so hard at the idea of Nott the Brave, of Nott-who-ran-from-rabbit being brave, she goes out a little farther than the clan’s borders and she steals from people who nearly never notice her doing it. And sometimes, when there’s people coming- not as many, lately, because locals know about the goblins in this forest- she’ll do a bit without the others, which is how she winds up with having more gold than anybody else in the clan. She’s real good at sneaking, so she’s the one that they send to scout the trail to see if anybody’s coming. She just doesn’t like fighting, even though she accidentally starts fights more times than she can count, and she can count the highest from all the goblins in the clan.Īnd, even though Nott doesn’t like fights doesn’t mean that she can’t do nothing.
They just call her Nott the Brave even though she’s not brave at all and she does run from fights, even since her mother’s given her a dagger. They don’t care that she’s the chieftain’s daughter, even now that she’s got her nose ring and her ear piercings. “Nott the Brave,” they laugh, “so brave she runs from mice! So brave she runs from cooked meat!”
They think it’s funny when they call her Nott the Brave.
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