(SE) so we light up (O)

VAI The huntress Yeah, there was more. Enough that once Sunjata was done with the bottle, Vai picked it back up and took another healthy pull from it - because all of a sudden it made a lot of sense, why he drank. The way he patted his pockets was a gesture she was familiar with, though she couldn’t help but smile mirthlessly. ”It’s a little wet, to light up,” she remarked, reaching out to lay a hand on his arm. ”It wasn’t your fault, what happened to you. Or your girl. You know that, right?” she said softly. ”None of it was your fault. The things your father did weren’t yours to control. And it doesn’t make you like him, either.” What it did make him was something else completely, something that might never heal from the cracks that had been knocked into it.