when you bury your pain
Undoubtedly surprising them both, Finn lets out a quiet laugh and shakes his head at Remi. ”Herding is not my job,” he says, sounding a touch thankful for that based on what he’s just been told. ”Depending on what happens, it is my hope that your help will be mainly on prevention, rather than all out conflict,” he explains, though he knows there are those in the Order who already believe that war is imminent.
Slowly and carefully, Finn rises to his feet once he’s realised the forest floor is soaking wet. Holding out a hand for Remi (and surprising no one more than himself), he listens patiently to the other man’s explanation, frowning at the ground. ”Someone tried to drown me, once,” he says, his voice barely more than a whisper. ”Ever since then, the idea of being in a body of water makes me very uncomfortable. But I... I don’t know. Part of me felt like I wanted to prove myself to you.”
He doesn’t know why, either, in a similar state of confusion to Remi - in fact, Finn’s even nodding in agreement with the Alchemist’s description of things. He wants to say something like you don’t have to before realising it’s really nothing to do with him. ”I wish I had found a nicer way to say it,” he says instead. ”...Is that why you are here? To try?”
Slowly and carefully, Finn rises to his feet once he’s realised the forest floor is soaking wet. Holding out a hand for Remi (and surprising no one more than himself), he listens patiently to the other man’s explanation, frowning at the ground. ”Someone tried to drown me, once,” he says, his voice barely more than a whisper. ”Ever since then, the idea of being in a body of water makes me very uncomfortable. But I... I don’t know. Part of me felt like I wanted to prove myself to you.”
He doesn’t know why, either, in a similar state of confusion to Remi - in fact, Finn’s even nodding in agreement with the Alchemist’s description of things. He wants to say something like you don’t have to before realising it’s really nothing to do with him. ”I wish I had found a nicer way to say it,” he says instead. ”...Is that why you are here? To try?”
THE SPYGLASS
you only strengthen its roots
