[SE] really rings a bell

girls can be dangerous and still win

“Too soon” was a judgement call. One could wonder and wonder and wonder and still not have the same answer from person to person. Much like grief, she supposed, the timeframes were all different for each person, and that discernment had to come from within, rather than anyone else’s input. Only Sunjata would be able to make such a claim on his own terms. “I don’t know. Without it though, you won’t ever have the possibility.” It was an honest and earnest answer, with another shrug to accompany, or perhaps to grant him permission to figure it out without those prying and dramatic footfalls.

Sighing, she hunted along the bells again, teeth still biting down on the stick so she didn’t launch into another tirade, eyes flickering over one that had been cast in Ludo formations – before moving to one nearby, similar in its depictions. “Okay,” she nodded at his compliance, and then she wouldn’t have to be such a hovering git.

With the dream thing though, her lips pursed, nose wrinkling slightly. “So like, I had no control over going to sleep. It just happened.” No end and no beginning, just a sudden lurching. “Then there was sand all around – some weird monster thing with a friend’s face, and it swallowed the stag and desert and then everything exploded outward.”

Melita

she knew exactly what she was doing when she invited the wild in