Weaver
So precious is this life, this gift,
this temporary blindness.
this temporary blindness.
{say]”Well,” she says with a chuckle, ”are you always this easy?” She gives him a teasing wink, resting a hand down on the table she’s been leaning against. He starts work on the dough, though she doesn’t need the time to think about flavors. ”Chocolate. Or cinnamon.” Yes, sometimes she is simply a girl, and chocolate solves all problems. Probably if the people of Whitebrim had chocolate, they would stop eating people.
His next question though is equally as hard as the first, and she pauses again, finally letting out a low chuckle. ”You know? I think I’d change very little. I love Halo and all that it is. It’d be nice if it were a little warmer, if maybe on occasion the snow would stop and we could see some dirt beneath it. But I don’t necessarily want it to be vastly different. We are who we are here because of where we live, and to change it is to take away an important part of our identity.” There’s a lot of truth to that. Halovians were shaped by their land and the hard life they lived, but she thought it made them better in the long run. ”Though I don’t think anyone would be upset if the temperatures would get above freezing.”
His next question though is equally as hard as the first, and she pauses again, finally letting out a low chuckle. ”You know? I think I’d change very little. I love Halo and all that it is. It’d be nice if it were a little warmer, if maybe on occasion the snow would stop and we could see some dirt beneath it. But I don’t necessarily want it to be vastly different. We are who we are here because of where we live, and to change it is to take away an important part of our identity.” There’s a lot of truth to that. Halovians were shaped by their land and the hard life they lived, but she thought it made them better in the long run. ”Though I don’t think anyone would be upset if the temperatures would get above freezing.”
Burn and drown and embrace the false dark,
then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy.
then grasp the unthinkable height of resulting joy.
