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[sonorant]

i know nothing about f&h

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[sonorant]

[ she looks up at him with the smallest of smiles, but it's so, so tired. ]

For you, if you want it.

[recession]

I'm fine, really.

Doesn't suit you though.

[ Which part? A number of things. ]

What's on your mind? Besides the most obvious, short-term things.

[sonorant]

[ which part? which number of things?

she looks back up at the lights that may as well be stars. ]

... Birds who fall to the ground will struggle and try to fly towards the sky again. It's their right, their prerogative, but it must take them longer each and every time they fall.

[recession]

I don't know about "right". More like that's just what they do.

[ Of course, flightless bird is a thing, but if you have to tack on 'flightless' before it -- it's like saying legless lizard. ]

Is that how you feel right now, struggling on the ground?

[sonorant]

To a degree. When I was shot in the throat, I thought I'd become flightless.

[ but she was able to rally after that. somehow. ]

It wears, as if feathers keep getting plucked from my wings.

[recession]

But you stood up from that and recovered.

I thought it was the whole point of the spiel you gave me.

[sonorant]

Yes. I will fly again. I have too many reasons not to.

[ her love for humanity and her love for her brother will propel her, as it always does. ]

But for right now... I'm grounded. You'll forgive me for that, won't you?

[recession]

Oh, sure I will, love. If you think I've got the grounds to forgive anything or anyone.

Quite the quiet ruckus you put up there near the end. Could've just said yes to everything people were asking and nobody would've bat an eye.

[sonorant]

You can forgive what you want or don't want to. It's only if you have the heart to.

[ it can be empty words, too, but robin is usually against that even if she's from a family of politicians. ]

I prefer to be honest and sincere when and where I can.

[recession]

Sorry, but I'm no follower of Alll-mer. Confessionals and the like aren't really my thing. But I am a good listener, and I can hold a secret.

Why such a vague memory? The darkness has got you in its grasp, has it.

[sonorant]

Do you have to follow All-mer to be someone who forgives?

[ she looks thoughtful about that. ]

Darkness isn't inaccurate, but I'll walk towards the light eventually.

[recession]

It's the safer kind of acceptance, in comparison to others. He and the God of Fear and Hunger, the only human-born gods.

[ ... ]

And when is "eventually"?

[sonorant]

Human-born gods? That's different from what I know.

[ shuts my eyes about how aeons are born ]

It's difficult to say. Hopefully, soon. If I could wish it, very soon.

[recession]

A lot of things are different between where we all come from.

[ So he isn't surprised. ]

And if you don't find your way?

[sonorant]

Then, I wouldn't be myself. I'd be betraying myself.

[recession]

...It's good to have a strong sense of identity, Miss Robin. Never want to lose your way like that.

[sonorant]

It's not my aim to. Today, or after.

[recession]

I hope you actually mean that, and not just putting on a strong face.

I'm not an audience.