(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

It was nice, this trading of stories, in a way that Soh hadn't quite been aware of before. She had plenty of friends, and they were always happy to listen - but they didn't always understand in the same way that Jata did, being a leader himself. They might have different leadership styles, and different goals for their regions, and all manner of things, but at the end of the day, they understood the deep responsibility they held for their people. It was something that Soh shared with precious few others, and it was a relief to spend time with someone with whom she shared it.

"I just worry," Soh confided. "I don't know what may or may not be coming, and I want to be able to prepare and protect people, but..." She sighed, then shook her head. "But you didn't come to listen to me worry," she said with a laugh, shaking her head as though to banish her concerns into the ether. "Hopefully I'm overreacting, and nothing will happen."

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