Hm. You when you gave up, and me when I refused to.
[But that's... not entirely correct. Timekeeper had also given up, in a way. Given up finding a sane way to assuage her fears, given in to an all-consuming certainty that unless she could control everything, she would be trapped in a nightmare of a life. She'd gotten her control. And lost things she hadn't realized she would, hadn't realized meant so much.
(But at least she wasn't bored.)
Her eye flicks down towards the sheets for a moment, searching.]
Well, that was quite rude of it. [She looks back up.] So you think that role carries on, even here, then? Were I in your shoes, I think I would seek to break it.
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Date: 2024-09-24 02:59 am (UTC)[But that's... not entirely correct. Timekeeper had also given up, in a way. Given up finding a sane way to assuage her fears, given in to an all-consuming certainty that unless she could control everything, she would be trapped in a nightmare of a life. She'd gotten her control. And lost things she hadn't realized she would, hadn't realized meant so much.
(But at least she wasn't bored.)
Her eye flicks down towards the sheets for a moment, searching.]
Well, that was quite rude of it. [She looks back up.] So you think that role carries on, even here, then? Were I in your shoes, I think I would seek to break it.