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
Drawing in a shaking breath, Seren did her best to listen without throwing up her defenses. She wasn't used to this feeling of overwhelming obstacles looming ahead. Challenges had always been fun and fulfilling before. What changed? Why was she suddenly terrified of falling short - when expectations had been something to take pride in only a few weeks ago?
"I just... feel so hopelessly inadequate," she admitted, pressing her mouth into a tight line as a hot tear snuck past her defenses and rolled down the cheek. "There are all these people around me who are in so much pain. And I want to help, Maeve, but... there's so much I don't understand. And they won't talk to me, not in the ways that matter, because I am a child and should thus be protected. From all their big and terrible secrets." Almost angry now, she swiped at the tear, only for it to be replaced by another.
"They don't want to burden me, apparently. Do I look that weak? Am I that unreliable? I don't want to be, but maybe - " She had to break off, the voice was shaking too much. And it just felt like proof, despite what Maeve said. What good was empathy if she lost herself in the emotions and troubles of others? If she couldn't even handle herself...
"I just... feel so hopelessly inadequate," she admitted, pressing her mouth into a tight line as a hot tear snuck past her defenses and rolled down the cheek. "There are all these people around me who are in so much pain. And I want to help, Maeve, but... there's so much I don't understand. And they won't talk to me, not in the ways that matter, because I am a child and should thus be protected. From all their big and terrible secrets." Almost angry now, she swiped at the tear, only for it to be replaced by another.
"They don't want to burden me, apparently. Do I look that weak? Am I that unreliable? I don't want to be, but maybe - " She had to break off, the voice was shaking too much. And it just felt like proof, despite what Maeve said. What good was empathy if she lost herself in the emotions and troubles of others? If she couldn't even handle herself...
Seren
