Trying My Best (OPEN)

Sam did not say anything else. He was exhausted, couldn't continue this endless circular argument with no end; The Voice was such a major point of his life he couldn't not mention her, surely Jigano knew that? But he could already hear the reaction to that, the disgust that he had no life outside her...this felt like a pointless argument. The last thing that was said though, it stung. "...You are important to me. The rest of the guild...Amalia hates me. I barely know anyone else, and Caiside is..." He sighed, trailing off. The Ascended had certainly been more accessible for friendships, anyway; had more in common with him too, with the connection of their Goddess and shared physical changes between them. "I know that you probably think I'm a bad person now. Sometimes I think that too, but then I don't know if I can so easily criticise my whole life like you seem to be able to do." He sighed, poked about with some dust on the floor. "If...if you want, I can give you the guild books and we do not have to speak anymore. I will not ask you for more favours, for I'm sure you wouldn't want to be helping someone that helps The Voice." Samuel He took a step but then felt tired He said, I'll rest a little while But when he tried to walk again He wasn't a child