I'll leave my love hidden in the sun
It was tempting, oh so tempting to accept that offer. To close her eyes and look away, pretend not to notice what was going on around her. She could turn her face from the Ascended and refuse to see the humans they once - and maybe still - were, claim she did not have a choice because of who she was born to be, and place all the burden and all the blame on others.
But...
"I would still be guilty by association," she murmured, surprisingly sober and level headed even in the midst of a crisis. Hotaru's affections felt like a distant thing, soothing but limited in their helpfulness. "Willful ignorance... letting others suffer while I stay safe and clean in some tower somewhere... why did I ever leave the stars, if that is how I am to live?" With a sigh, she sat up. Pressed the butt of her palms into the eyes until flecks of light danced before her inner vision, and the need to cry subsided. She had done nothing but shed tears lately... it was growing tiresome.
"I think I would rather choose what kind of monster I become, than let myself be turned whilst pretending that nothing is wrong. A book I read once said that one should choose ones battles... Well. I suppose, for starters... I choose this one you have brewing."
The gaze that met Hotaru's was neither steely nor strong. The girl still looked wide eyed and pale, with lips atremble and too much weighing on too slender shoulders. But when she smiled, it was still a bright thing, if soft and flickering.
"Show me how to topple a kingdom, yeah? I'm here to learn."
- FIN
But...
"I would still be guilty by association," she murmured, surprisingly sober and level headed even in the midst of a crisis. Hotaru's affections felt like a distant thing, soothing but limited in their helpfulness. "Willful ignorance... letting others suffer while I stay safe and clean in some tower somewhere... why did I ever leave the stars, if that is how I am to live?" With a sigh, she sat up. Pressed the butt of her palms into the eyes until flecks of light danced before her inner vision, and the need to cry subsided. She had done nothing but shed tears lately... it was growing tiresome.
"I think I would rather choose what kind of monster I become, than let myself be turned whilst pretending that nothing is wrong. A book I read once said that one should choose ones battles... Well. I suppose, for starters... I choose this one you have brewing."
The gaze that met Hotaru's was neither steely nor strong. The girl still looked wide eyed and pale, with lips atremble and too much weighing on too slender shoulders. But when she smiled, it was still a bright thing, if soft and flickering.
"Show me how to topple a kingdom, yeah? I'm here to learn."
- FIN
For when the darkness comes
SEREN
