(SE) wear your silver lining

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes and tell me when it rains
And I'll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins

Sometimes Soh wondered if she'd made a mistake, taking on the leadership of Stormbreak at such a young age. She was still a teenager, young and inexperienced and naive, as she'd shown on more than one occasion. But someone had to do it, and no one else had been willing - so she'd stepped up. At the end of the day, did it really matter that there were still whispers that she was unfit for the position solely because of her age? Did she really care about what people thought? Was she stubborn enough to push through the doubt - her own included - to come out on the other side?

Time would only tell.

Part of her success would rely on finding a balance of preparation and relaxation. Bad things would happen - that was just a part of living - and although she would try her best to prepare her people for it, there were no guarantees that she would succeed. Nor could she expect them to stay vigilant every moment of every day, waiting for the other shoe to drop. It simply wasn't sustainable to live that way. So they did the best that they could, and that was all that she could ask.

"Well, we'll find out whether there's a problem eventually, I suppose," she said with a wry smile. "But in the meantime - are you hungry, or are you good with coffee for now? We can head to the Eye whenever you're ready."

the Luminary

'Cause your heart has a lack of colour and we should've known
That we'd grow up sooner or later 'cause we wasted all our free time alone

code stolen from sky who stole it from odd