[makes like no effort to escape the headlock, which makes this tableau very funny]
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Maybe you're not ready to hear this, but I do truly think your mothers and sisters would be proud of you. Not just everything you have tried to do for them, for your world, to try for love and peace in the barren desert. To try to save all that you can, so others can start to scrape hopeful life from destruction with their own hands.
But also...that you did not even give up, when new roads opened up. You chose to turn upon them, when you have every right to lay you down and sleep. You are still...trying now, to see what it is to live instead of hard-using yourself and fading. To see how to live with strength you have already seen the consequences of; if there is a better way. To love without knives at your throat.
I don't think they gave you the power that they did because they thought you would use it poorly. I don't think they would believe you did. I hope you ask that question of them, when you return to them.
I am proud of you. To know you. If I can see you happy in your changed circumstances, I too will know I did something correct.
Re: day 9?, into the mist after moonrise
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Maybe you're not ready to hear this, but I do truly think your mothers and sisters would be proud of you. Not just everything you have tried to do for them, for your world, to try for love and peace in the barren desert. To try to save all that you can, so others can start to scrape hopeful life from destruction with their own hands.
But also...that you did not even give up, when new roads opened up. You chose to turn upon them, when you have every right to lay you down and sleep. You are still...trying now, to see what it is to live instead of hard-using yourself and fading. To see how to live with strength you have already seen the consequences of; if there is a better way. To love without knives at your throat.
I don't think they gave you the power that they did because they thought you would use it poorly. I don't think they would believe you did. I hope you ask that question of them, when you return to them.
I am proud of you. To know you. If I can see you happy in your changed circumstances, I too will know I did something correct.