how can you rise
if you have not burned?
She wishes there was some way to avoid bringing up all that pain for him, but she needs to know. She can’t walk into a meeting with Remi and not have a clue what happened between them. Honestly though, it’s all personal. It should not matter in regards to the politics of Torchline and Halo, though she knows personal feelings often get in the way.Her hand finds his neck again, thumb running gently over his jaw. She can offer no more comfort than her soft touch, than simply being there. ”Still, I did not help, and you do not seem to blame me.” At least she hadn’t stopped someone in his family with an actual claim to the title of Warden. No one wanted to see Zariah rule, after all.
”You don’t have to make promises. You have to make a choice. I will not tell you which one to make, Loren. I can only tell you which one I can live with.” She had said it before. She will not watch him fall back down the path he’d finally dragged himself up from. And though she is a bit blind where he is concerned, she is not completely foolish either. There is only so much she will tolerate. She meets his eyes, understanding but something firm in there. ”The choice is yours. And it is a choice.” Do not pretend it is anything else.
As he manages to half blame himself for this, she shakes her head. ”Your brother brought us here. Nothing you could have done would have mattered. Don’t make me say it again. And we will go together. I am coming with you. And we will take Morgan if she’d like to go.” Maybe they’d need Wessex again. Without Zariah and potentially without Neron, they were hurting for powerful people in Halo right now.
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