It's Lord of the Flies in my mind tonight
Well. The others don’t think of her as the matriarch for nothing. Without her own children, the older woman is forced to spend all her lecturing energy on others. Lucky Anden!
Again, she snort-chuckles. “You give me way too much power. I’ve done shit that’s been poorly received by people, but none of it worthy of egging on a war.” Fixing the Outlander with a bit of a look that says both do you hear yourself? and you poor misled thing, the Wraith needlessly sighs. “No, this is three hundred plus years in the work and all the Gods’ doing. Even someone like me is still a pawn.” The other demigods? Same position - one she might call her friend, one she used to call family - her face falls when she thinks of needing to fight these people some day, the position they've all been put in because they made a bold, decisive choice.
But that thought doesn’t solve this current problem, and she shakes her head, looking at him. “How much do you know about Caido and the history of the Grounds?”
Again, she snort-chuckles. “You give me way too much power. I’ve done shit that’s been poorly received by people, but none of it worthy of egging on a war.” Fixing the Outlander with a bit of a look that says both do you hear yourself? and you poor misled thing, the Wraith needlessly sighs. “No, this is three hundred plus years in the work and all the Gods’ doing. Even someone like me is still a pawn.” The other demigods? Same position - one she might call her friend, one she used to call family - her face falls when she thinks of needing to fight these people some day, the position they've all been put in because they made a bold, decisive choice.
But that thought doesn’t solve this current problem, and she shakes her head, looking at him. “How much do you know about Caido and the history of the Grounds?”
