Lena
even when no one was looking
I was still kind
I was still kind
Zavien wouldn’t have to worry about any other implications and innuendos; they’d be lost on Lena for the moment, far too flummoxed and bewildered to register much of anything but brief, shallow movements and not wanting to hurt anything. Being told to relax just brought her shoulders almost squarely up to her ears, and she had to strive for several long instances on remembering the stance properly.
So she watched, painstakingly and meticulously, as he circled around. She couldn’t quite fathom why he’d rotated his staff, or how, and if she was supposed to be doing that, and took a few steadying breaths to measure how much she was treading. But the Caretaker stepped out with her left leg, keeping her core as tight as possible; the inquiries kept coming though, as she was trying to piece and parse through the methods, following along as best she could while the questions launched. “Why am I rotating it? Can’t I just hold it the same way all the time?”
So she watched, painstakingly and meticulously, as he circled around. She couldn’t quite fathom why he’d rotated his staff, or how, and if she was supposed to be doing that, and took a few steadying breaths to measure how much she was treading. But the Caretaker stepped out with her left leg, keeping her core as tight as possible; the inquiries kept coming though, as she was trying to piece and parse through the methods, following along as best she could while the questions launched. “Why am I rotating it? Can’t I just hold it the same way all the time?”
with all of my heart
even when it is invisible
even when it is invisible
