(SE) so we light up (O)

VAI The huntress It was as he returned the embrace that Vai finally shifted to her knees on the sand to hug him properly, the huntress scowling into the depths of the water. For all of her advice, her calm, her reasoning, there was a storm that churned in her that promised only horror for people like the father Sunjata described. But that wasn’t what he needed right now. ”And that’s okay,” she said softly. ”It was all you could do for a very long time. But you’re not there anymore. This is somewhere new, somewhere different. There’s no trial, no resistance, no bullshit father giving orders from on high. You can learn to be something else, if you wanted to.” And fuck, if that wasn’t terrifying all by itself. Vai glanced down at him, offering a weak smile. ”And even if you don’t want to - you don’t have to be what he wanted you to be. You’ve got the right to live your own life, you know?”