I will stand by you forever; you can take my breath away
If that’s the way he wants to act, then Wessex will happily play along.
She was once a surly teen too, hated the world, found little worth her interest. All that anger - it was a lot. Overwhelming sometimes. The bad kind of caring, so she’d tried to simply not care at all. So maybe the Wraith recognizes a long-dead version of herself in the boy and that’s why she doesn’t press anything, just leveling a slightly arched look at him before shrugging and turning back to the fireflies.
Instead, she lets a bit of her preternatural speed shine, zipping to catch one bug in her right and then another quickly in her right hand. Then she gingerly puts the two hands together and tries to consolidate her prizes.
She was once a surly teen too, hated the world, found little worth her interest. All that anger - it was a lot. Overwhelming sometimes. The bad kind of caring, so she’d tried to simply not care at all. So maybe the Wraith recognizes a long-dead version of herself in the boy and that’s why she doesn’t press anything, just leveling a slightly arched look at him before shrugging and turning back to the fireflies.
Instead, she lets a bit of her preternatural speed shine, zipping to catch one bug in her right and then another quickly in her right hand. Then she gingerly puts the two hands together and tries to consolidate her prizes.
WESSEX
