This is the long forgotten light at the end of the world
Blinking against the burning in her eyes, she swayed along with Harper's movements. It was soothing. Like bobbing in the surf of the sea. He smelled nice; of fresh sweat and clean clothes, ocean and salt and soap. It should be strange, being so close to someone she hardly knew, but despite herself Seren found that she was relaxing. Exhaling a deep sigh, she shook her head. No, she didn't think him weak. Or them - the others whose confessions she had taken.
But there was a difference, and a reason behind her strictness against herself. Had she already told him...? Was this the kind of secret that she ought to keep under lock and key..?
She didn't have the resilience needed to figure that out right now.
"They will judge," she mumbled against his shoulder. "I am Safrin's daughter. Ronin's daughter. Even if people don't mean to, they are all going to look at me and expect something. And I want to live up to... all of it. Make my parents proud. I... can't afford to be anything less than excellent." Whether on a battlefield, in the grand halls of collegiums and archives or deep in the Wilds conversing with some tribal folk, Seren was a demigod. It couldn't mean nothing.
But there was a difference, and a reason behind her strictness against herself. Had she already told him...? Was this the kind of secret that she ought to keep under lock and key..?
She didn't have the resilience needed to figure that out right now.
"They will judge," she mumbled against his shoulder. "I am Safrin's daughter. Ronin's daughter. Even if people don't mean to, they are all going to look at me and expect something. And I want to live up to... all of it. Make my parents proud. I... can't afford to be anything less than excellent." Whether on a battlefield, in the grand halls of collegiums and archives or deep in the Wilds conversing with some tribal folk, Seren was a demigod. It couldn't mean nothing.
Seren
