// I tried to scream but my head was underwater //
Humming, she nodded slowly. "Perhaps not. But I bet it's better than bottling every emotion up until they explode all over anyone who happens to be nearby. I'm definitely guilty of doing that. It's what got me into this mess, and it cost me a relationship way back, too." Sitting on the insecurities and jealousy had done nothing to help processing a lifestyle very far from what she'd ever imagined, and paired with a sharp tongue it had spelled the end of that romance. Maea liked to believe she would act differently this time, if given half a chance... even if evidence pointed to the opposite. "Talking like this helps a lot, though. I hope you know how grateful I am that you care enough to listen... and that I'll be here for you too, if you ever need anything."
A little rosy in the cheeks from saying that out loud, Maea's smile was sincere as she glanced up at Liam. Then, just as they rounded a bend in the path, her eyes widened. "Ha! I knew it was around here somewhere!" Pointing off to his other side, a crack in the cavern wall caught the light of her fire. Blackish-green stones of varying size and opacity glimmered like a geode cracked open, in a crevasse that plunged arm deep into the bedrock. "Think those will do?"
A little rosy in the cheeks from saying that out loud, Maea's smile was sincere as she glanced up at Liam. Then, just as they rounded a bend in the path, her eyes widened. "Ha! I knew it was around here somewhere!" Pointing off to his other side, a crack in the cavern wall caught the light of her fire. Blackish-green stones of varying size and opacity glimmered like a geode cracked open, in a crevasse that plunged arm deep into the bedrock. "Think those will do?"
Maea
// They called me weak, like I'm not just somebody's daughter //
