This is the long forgotten light at the end of the world
Soft and open ended the question may have been; it made Seren flinch a little all the same. An arrow striking more true than Haper perhaps realized himself, and she had no response. No defense. He was right, and it cast everything in a completely different light.
With a feeling that this was starting to become more tangled than it had been, Seren looked down and bit at her bottom lip, teeth worrying the tender skin until it became painful. Feeling as though she ought to keep backing away, even though it helped so much to be close. "I've never met anyone I didn't feel I could trust," she said quietly. Honest, helpless; was that on her, or had she been lucky? Wasn't all people inherently good, with beauty in their souls? "I don't know where the monsters are supposed to be. I never saw any. Only people in pain... Are they the ones I should hide from? Will they use me to hurt my parents? I don't know."
Her limbs felt numb and prickly all at once. Carefully Seren disentangled herself from Harper's grasp, and backed away. One step, two; she was forgetting about the edge of the roof behind her. "I.. appreciate it, Harper. I really do. You are kind... I wouldn't want to get you in trouble with your Phoebe though." Off in Stormbreak to do something that dragged out in time, him left here alone - it was a situation rife for misunderstandings, and the kind of entanglements that Seren desperately wanted to stay out of.
With a feeling that this was starting to become more tangled than it had been, Seren looked down and bit at her bottom lip, teeth worrying the tender skin until it became painful. Feeling as though she ought to keep backing away, even though it helped so much to be close. "I've never met anyone I didn't feel I could trust," she said quietly. Honest, helpless; was that on her, or had she been lucky? Wasn't all people inherently good, with beauty in their souls? "I don't know where the monsters are supposed to be. I never saw any. Only people in pain... Are they the ones I should hide from? Will they use me to hurt my parents? I don't know."
Her limbs felt numb and prickly all at once. Carefully Seren disentangled herself from Harper's grasp, and backed away. One step, two; she was forgetting about the edge of the roof behind her. "I.. appreciate it, Harper. I really do. You are kind... I wouldn't want to get you in trouble with your Phoebe though." Off in Stormbreak to do something that dragged out in time, him left here alone - it was a situation rife for misunderstandings, and the kind of entanglements that Seren desperately wanted to stay out of.
Seren
