MAEA
Her mouth twitched as he moved away to clean up the washbowl and himself, a downward tug at the corners of the mouth that evened out only when she tugged the feet up onto the edge of the chair. Curled up, Maea stared at the far wall as the memories of that night was dredged up.
"It was just after the breach of the Spire," she started quietly. "The group I was in had gone down into the basement. There was a giant turtle like creature there, and we fought it. When it died, a gas began to fill the chamber. The others went down from it. I was furthest back, and I knew there was nothing I could do to help them... so I ran. Back upstairs, to get someone else to go in there. My lungs... they were badly damaged. So I was brought to the Temple, and a healer patched me up. I was still there when the barrier fell."
Pulling at a damp lock of hair, she rolled it between her fingers and sought him out with her eyes, content to watch what he was doing as she spoke.
"I was in pain. And full of guilt, and fear. I'd just gone against everything I was taught, everything I had ever believed, to help bring the barrier down. When I went to the shrine to pray, she turned up. I told her that I wished I had never gone inside that Spire. And all she did, was shrug. It... annoyed me." Sucking on her teeth, Maea considered. Weighed the ebb and flow of a conversation she had never been able to forget.
"I think it was the way she so very kindly and patiently explained every question I threw at her that rubbed me the wrong way. I was so raw, so full of emotion, and she wouldn't let herself be riled. In the end, I said that I thought her mad. That I couldn't understand what she was doing, or why. Before she left, she told me to remember that. That 'whenever you think you have everything figured out, remember this moment and know that you don't.'"
It had certainly left a mark in her. Always prone to doubting herself, those words... they kept gnawing at her even now.
"It was just after the breach of the Spire," she started quietly. "The group I was in had gone down into the basement. There was a giant turtle like creature there, and we fought it. When it died, a gas began to fill the chamber. The others went down from it. I was furthest back, and I knew there was nothing I could do to help them... so I ran. Back upstairs, to get someone else to go in there. My lungs... they were badly damaged. So I was brought to the Temple, and a healer patched me up. I was still there when the barrier fell."
Pulling at a damp lock of hair, she rolled it between her fingers and sought him out with her eyes, content to watch what he was doing as she spoke.
"I was in pain. And full of guilt, and fear. I'd just gone against everything I was taught, everything I had ever believed, to help bring the barrier down. When I went to the shrine to pray, she turned up. I told her that I wished I had never gone inside that Spire. And all she did, was shrug. It... annoyed me." Sucking on her teeth, Maea considered. Weighed the ebb and flow of a conversation she had never been able to forget.
"I think it was the way she so very kindly and patiently explained every question I threw at her that rubbed me the wrong way. I was so raw, so full of emotion, and she wouldn't let herself be riled. In the end, I said that I thought her mad. That I couldn't understand what she was doing, or why. Before she left, she told me to remember that. That 'whenever you think you have everything figured out, remember this moment and know that you don't.'"
It had certainly left a mark in her. Always prone to doubting herself, those words... they kept gnawing at her even now.
Light is easy to love
Show me your darkness
Show me your darkness
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