// now I've been crazy, couldn't you tell? //
Maea sobered alongside the lifeguard as a memory of death whispered past them upon the wind. She hadn't thought about it, but of course there would be accidents and instances where you arrived too late. "It takes a certain type person to know how wrong things can go and still go out there to help," she said, smiling softly. "I suppose that's part of why I can't get comfortable with desk work. By the time a story reaches thearchives, it's already too late to change anything."
Turning towards the Bodega, she stopped along the way to buy them each a hot drink and something to snack on. Chasing the chill out of her fingers by wrapping them around the cup, she gazed off along a path until it faded between the trees. "Is it hybris, you think? To insist that we, of all people, need to be the ones who go out there and affect change? Even though there's an overwhelming amount of other people who are far more capable...?"
Turning towards the Bodega, she stopped along the way to buy them each a hot drink and something to snack on. Chasing the chill out of her fingers by wrapping them around the cup, she gazed off along a path until it faded between the trees. "Is it hybris, you think? To insist that we, of all people, need to be the ones who go out there and affect change? Even though there's an overwhelming amount of other people who are far more capable...?"
Maea
// I threw stones at the stars but the whole sky fell //
