I've embraced the torch passed to me
owned what I've been called to be
“Because: one - I can listen, even if I’m not good at comforting. And two - I like making plans to solve problems,” she says mildly, now finally choosing to stand up. Brushing dirt off her butt, she turns back as he asks what she wants him to say. And raising a brow, she realizes that however old he may appear to be, he needs the support of someone a lot younger.
And that’s where she’s failed him. Okay. Let's try to shift tactics.
Picking up her own lost practice sword, she starts to walk towards him. “You think you’re the only one who feels that way?” A soft laugh, because she’s not going to try and out ‘woe-is-me’ him, but he clearly had no idea what it was like to lead, to be looked at the way people look at her, to have people repudiate her for her choices, to try and forge a path as the first demigod of the Voice, and figure out what her place in Caido is.
“Open your eyes, Amun. Take a moment and think about who you’re talking to.” A pause, hopeing that he might be able to consider everything he’s said. And if not - “I feel the same way most of the time.” With a sad soft of smile, Wessex shows a little vulnerability. She doesn't have any peers. Her 'sister' is absent, absorbed in being Queen, Bastien, and getting a baby. Her remaining Natural 'family' has told her she's selfish and deserves to die on multiple occasions, and the single remaining person she feels truly comfortable with... shares a bed with Jigano.
If he wants to play the one-up game, she can go there. But really, she'd much rather not.
And that’s where she’s failed him. Okay. Let's try to shift tactics.
Picking up her own lost practice sword, she starts to walk towards him. “You think you’re the only one who feels that way?” A soft laugh, because she’s not going to try and out ‘woe-is-me’ him, but he clearly had no idea what it was like to lead, to be looked at the way people look at her, to have people repudiate her for her choices, to try and forge a path as the first demigod of the Voice, and figure out what her place in Caido is.
“Open your eyes, Amun. Take a moment and think about who you’re talking to.” A pause, hopeing that he might be able to consider everything he’s said. And if not - “I feel the same way most of the time.” With a sad soft of smile, Wessex shows a little vulnerability. She doesn't have any peers. Her 'sister' is absent, absorbed in being Queen, Bastien, and getting a baby. Her remaining Natural 'family' has told her she's selfish and deserves to die on multiple occasions, and the single remaining person she feels truly comfortable with... shares a bed with Jigano.
If he wants to play the one-up game, she can go there. But really, she'd much rather not.
full tilt,
hello destiny
WESSEX
