25 Drabble Meme | #1 - Strength

[worsetodie]

Nothing so strong as gentleness and nothing so gentle as true strength. Was that how the saying went? Gold liked it, wherever it came from, but then he always admired a delicate hand. A harder touch tempered steel into a sword, but it was intricacy that gave the blade its character, that made the blade sharp enough to cut. He began to see he was right in choosing Diaval to be his first real employee, because bird or man, he shared Gold's affinity for little things and the gentleness with which one handled them. His clerk was also, to his credit, gentle with his employer's ever-shifting moods, his sensitivity to certain subjects, his temper. He knew nothing of the Maleficent he'd served under, but he imagined that if she were anything like the one he knew, then a presence such as his would have calmed and soothed her.