[ there was a time when wren wasn't angry, she knows. there had to have been something before this. she just doesn't remember it.
you learn to hold it in. to shove it down for a cause. and it works, mostly, if you try hard enough and long enough — mostly, it works. but sooner or later, you always have to shout. sooner or later, it always busts free. you kick. you scream. you get petty and mean.
and then you get back to the job. ]
Return the axe when you are finished.
[ this is the thing about simon, the thing that's unfair itself, she knows — that she need worry less of him. these concerns she keeps delaying. the questions she doesn't need to press: why do you do this? who would you be, were you not a knight? how do you see this ending?
dependability means, too often, being shunted to the bottom of one's priorities.
first things first. put out this fire. and then... then attend to the rest. ]
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[ there was a time when wren wasn't angry, she knows. there had to have been something before this. she just doesn't remember it.
you learn to hold it in. to shove it down for a cause. and it works, mostly, if you try hard enough and long enough — mostly, it works. but sooner or later, you always have to shout. sooner or later, it always busts free. you kick. you scream. you get petty and mean.
and then you get back to the job. ]
Return the axe when you are finished.
[ this is the thing about simon, the thing that's unfair itself, she knows — that she need worry less of him. these concerns she keeps delaying. the questions she doesn't need to press: why do you do this? who would you be, were you not a knight? how do you see this ending?
dependability means, too often, being shunted to the bottom of one's priorities.
first things first. put out this fire. and then... then attend to the rest. ]