Bellusdeo laughed. It was, for a moment, the only sound in the quiet of the fief’s night, and it was warmer and deeper than the lingering night chill. When her laughter faded, she glanced at Kaylin. “I 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. “It seems so unfair, ” she finally said.“ Life is unfair. Which part of it pains you?”“ We suffer, and it breaks something. When we win free–by gaining our name, by crossing a bloody bridge–we 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’re still reacting to things that don’t exist anymore.”“ But they did.”“ Yes. I hate that they still define me.” Voice lower, she said to Bellusdeo, “I want that to change. I don’t know how to change it. But I’m 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. “Home is a strange thing.”“ What do you mean?”“ We lose it, and we think it’s gone forever. That’s how I felt the first time I lost mine. It took me years to understand that I could find–and make–another. I couldn’t do it on my own, though; I don’t think–for me–home exists in isolation. Michelle Sagara West
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The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath
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And I’ll stop with the lecture now. I don’t like people much–they irritate and annoy me. But I’mfascinated by them anyway.
The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.
