kaylin-neya

Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered."What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail.""We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time.

What would this have been, if it had more power to give?""This may come as a surprise to you," he replied dryly, "But I am not an Ancient. Nor am I, human philosophy aside, a living construct.""Which means you don't know.""Which means, as you so succinctly put it, I do not know." - Kaylin & Tiamaris

Bellusdeo laughed. It was, for a moment, the only sound in the quiet of the fief__ night, and it was warmer and deeper than the lingering night chill. When her laughter faded, she glanced at Kaylin. __ was not like this before. I thought that the Shadows had not touched me._ She lowered her head a moment.Kaylin understood this, as well. __t seems so unfair,_ she finally said.__ife is unfair. Which part of it pains you?___e suffer, and it breaks something. When we win free__y gaining our name, by crossing a bloody bridge__e still live in a cage of scars. If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we__e still reacting to things that don__ exist anymore.___ut they did.___es. I hate that they still define me._ Voice lower, she said to Bellusdeo, __ want that to change. I don__ know how to change it. But I__ willing to spend the rest of my life trying._ Shaking her head, she forced herself to smile; it was surprisingly easy. There was something about Bellusdeo that she liked. __ome is a strange thing.___hat do you mean?___e lose it, and we think it__ gone forever. That__ how I felt the first time I lost mine. It took me years to understand that I could find__nd make__nother. I couldn__ do it on my own, though; I don__ think__or me__ome exists in isolation.

Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.