if it doesn't burn a little
She chuckles slightly, shaking her head at him, though in a good natured sort of way. ”I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Even the best of people do shitty things.” If they said they didn’t, they were probably lying. No one was perfect. Loren’s track record may be worse than the average person, but he seemed to be trying now. Not all wrongs could be righted, and time did not heal all wounds, but certainly time and effort could make things better. ”And you are as vigilant as you choose to be. You are who you choose to be. Don’t make excuses. Just own it.”
She raises her eyebrows at him slightly. ”Well if you keep looking for reasons for it to fail, it will fail. The real question is why. Why are you looking for excuses? Hell, maybe it will, maybe it won’t. But it definitely will if you walk into it with a fucking escape plan already mapped out in your head.” Her voice has taken on that hard, but not unkind, tone of hers. It’s a voice that seems to suggest she ought to be poking you with a finger every other word, though her arms remain crossed over her chest.
Weaver nods. ”I will not force you to mingle,” she says with a slight grin. Honestly, she was often on the outskirts of parties too, though perhaps simply because she really didn’t know all that many people outside of Halo, and even here she did not have that many friends. ”Who exactly is invited to this thing? Or at least, who are you avoiding?”
She raises her eyebrows at him slightly. ”Well if you keep looking for reasons for it to fail, it will fail. The real question is why. Why are you looking for excuses? Hell, maybe it will, maybe it won’t. But it definitely will if you walk into it with a fucking escape plan already mapped out in your head.” Her voice has taken on that hard, but not unkind, tone of hers. It’s a voice that seems to suggest she ought to be poking you with a finger every other word, though her arms remain crossed over her chest.
Weaver nods. ”I will not force you to mingle,” she says with a slight grin. Honestly, she was often on the outskirts of parties too, though perhaps simply because she really didn’t know all that many people outside of Halo, and even here she did not have that many friends. ”Who exactly is invited to this thing? Or at least, who are you avoiding?”
-- weaver
then what's the point in playing with fire?
