Weaver
So precious is this life, this gift,
this temporary blindness.
this temporary blindness.
She simply skips over his statement about Hotaru and Nate. Honestly the members of the guild, for the most part, are all so new that they barely know more than one another’s names. Nate’s a decent enough guess, though Maea hadn’t been part of the guild. Not everyone Sunjata dated was, though, she had known about it.
Instead, Weaver moves on to the topic of her popularity, and she laughs outright. ”How’s that working out for you?” she says with a teasing grin. ”Because I am rather more infamous for being a pile of trouble than I am anything else. Are you sure that’s the reputation you want?” To be fair, she was popular with the people of Halo, but much of that was her history more than anything else. She was also absolutely known for being a pile of trouble. Very pretty trouble, but trouble all the same.
”You’ve done a whole lot of things for being not that old, as far as I can tell. Unless you are also immortal. Where exactly do you find all this time, Loren?” All the training with his family, sleeping on rocks, baking, sewing, cooking for families. Where did the list of things he’d done end?
She shakes her head, sighing slightly. ”No. I think we all wouldn’t mind it. Except I suspect that if life were too simple, we’d find a way to make it complicated anyway.” In the end, they were their own worst enemy.
Instead, Weaver moves on to the topic of her popularity, and she laughs outright. ”How’s that working out for you?” she says with a teasing grin. ”Because I am rather more infamous for being a pile of trouble than I am anything else. Are you sure that’s the reputation you want?” To be fair, she was popular with the people of Halo, but much of that was her history more than anything else. She was also absolutely known for being a pile of trouble. Very pretty trouble, but trouble all the same.
”You’ve done a whole lot of things for being not that old, as far as I can tell. Unless you are also immortal. Where exactly do you find all this time, Loren?” All the training with his family, sleeping on rocks, baking, sewing, cooking for families. Where did the list of things he’d done end?
She shakes her head, sighing slightly. ”No. I think we all wouldn’t mind it. Except I suspect that if life were too simple, we’d find a way to make it complicated anyway.” In the end, they were their own worst enemy.
Burn and drown and embrace the false dark,
then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy.
then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy.
