You still have time, Matt. And if you can't make things better there, at least you might make them better here.
( hypocritical of her to say; her own sandgrains in an hourglass feel like they're slipping by too quickly, nearer and nearer to an end, but — destiny hasn't gripped matt by the throat and demanded he bleed himself as a martyr, hasn't asked him to build a future from the bones and entrails of sacrifice after sacrifice. she's only selfishly sunk her claws in tighter to an existence her, what happiness she can eke out for herself, for fear of what she's expected to lose. (everything, of course. the answer is always everything.)
but —
he has a selfless sense of purpose he wants to return to, and time at his disposal, and isn't that ironic? that the power inside of her might sustain her for centuries and centuries, a perpetual flame in the dark, if she wasn't marked for death the moment they immortalized her in stained glass and dared to call her a saint. that an immortal thing should have to worry about it, before his mortal body ever does. )
I've never attended a school. Well, not a real one. I always hoped I'd get the chance to see Ketterdam's University one day. What are you studying?
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And if you can't make things better there, at least you might make them better here.
( hypocritical of her to say; her own sandgrains in an hourglass feel like they're slipping by too quickly, nearer and nearer to an end, but — destiny hasn't gripped matt by the throat and demanded he bleed himself as a martyr, hasn't asked him to build a future from the bones and entrails of sacrifice after sacrifice. she's only selfishly sunk her claws in tighter to an existence her, what happiness she can eke out for herself, for fear of what she's expected to lose. (everything, of course. the answer is always everything.)
but —
he has a selfless sense of purpose he wants to return to, and time at his disposal, and isn't that ironic? that the power inside of her might sustain her for centuries and centuries, a perpetual flame in the dark, if she wasn't marked for death the moment they immortalized her in stained glass and dared to call her a saint. that an immortal thing should have to worry about it, before his mortal body ever does. )
I've never attended a school.
Well, not a real one. I always hoped I'd get the chance to see Ketterdam's University one day.
What are you studying?