Not just a fighter, not just a dreamer
Amazing creator, relentless believer
In who I am and what I got inside
Amazing creator, relentless believer
In who I am and what I got inside
She frowned slightly at the implication that someone might come after her for speaking up and telling the truth. Would Hotaru do that? Would Maeve? Seren wouldn't believe it of either of them. But then, she also would never have believed that Hotaru would be capable of arson either. If it really was her who started this.
"If there really is potential for danger then I need to let my father know, at least," she murmured. "But other than him, I won't tell anyone." Easy enough to promise; she had no wish to spread rumors and increase the potential for the kind of unjustified blame that Maeve had feared. "And you should not try to be fair because I ask, miss Arbiter. You should give her the benefit of the doubt because that is what's right, and because we don't know the full story. Hotaru being on the scene doesn't make her automatically guilty. If that was the case, then you should be arresting me, too. For trying to aid the unicorn in escaping."
And Maeve, and Adam, and all the spectators that had been standing by to do nothing. There would be no end.
"If there really is potential for danger then I need to let my father know, at least," she murmured. "But other than him, I won't tell anyone." Easy enough to promise; she had no wish to spread rumors and increase the potential for the kind of unjustified blame that Maeve had feared. "And you should not try to be fair because I ask, miss Arbiter. You should give her the benefit of the doubt because that is what's right, and because we don't know the full story. Hotaru being on the scene doesn't make her automatically guilty. If that was the case, then you should be arresting me, too. For trying to aid the unicorn in escaping."
And Maeve, and Adam, and all the spectators that had been standing by to do nothing. There would be no end.
Seren
