the universe is in your bones, the stars in your soul
She makes it sound real, promised. It would happen, very soon. Kamaria feels suddenly shrunken and small, her hands folding over her stomach. She hadn't known her mother made a way to protect all the children of Caido, and it's something she's glad for. Paige and kids like her, they'd all survive the war no matter what happened. But Kamaria had always known that one way or the other, her parents would try to keep her safe so long as she remained a fragile, small thing.
"That's not fair," she says quietly, shaking her head and looking down at her hands, "what good is it for me to hide and turn away when everyone else might be in danger? They all matter too. They're not any less important. Why should I be protected if they aren't? And what good would it be to stay safe if the world I come back to isn't even the same anymore... I wouldn't want to grow up then. I wouldn't need to..."
"That's not fair," she says quietly, shaking her head and looking down at her hands, "what good is it for me to hide and turn away when everyone else might be in danger? They all matter too. They're not any less important. Why should I be protected if they aren't? And what good would it be to stay safe if the world I come back to isn't even the same anymore... I wouldn't want to grow up then. I wouldn't need to..."
it's never really the end
Kamaria
