[ Siffrin wonders if it has anything to do with the Catastrophes Elysium mentioned once. Maybe, probably. It hasn't come up since. ]
... Everyone has something they can't let go.
[ Gebura and the moments she failed, or others failed her. Callisto and his upbringing, a dreadful courtlife spent always watching his own back. Elysium and the ubrupt change in his life, that made him into a traveler who didn't have anywhere he wanted to be. Siffrin...
... ]
You can't... pry it from their hands, or try to hand them enough to make them drop it. But I think that... he ends up sharing it when he does things for others. The things he can't let go, the things he wants for himself.
[ (You get it.
You're the same way. It's why there's a kind of understanding, one that you share with Loop, too. Something aggravating and comforting. Similarities in a mirroring way. You think of the way Elysium slackened, as if his strings had been cut. An acceptance. A resignation. But not in a bad way.) ]
He isn't bothered by your gifts, by the way. But I don't think he knows what to do with them. His room is pretty barren, and a traveler keeps only what they can carry -- especially one that travels because he has nowhere he wants to be.
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... Everyone has something they can't let go.
[ Gebura and the moments she failed, or others failed her. Callisto and his upbringing, a dreadful courtlife spent always watching his own back. Elysium and the ubrupt change in his life, that made him into a traveler who didn't have anywhere he wanted to be. Siffrin...
... ]
You can't... pry it from their hands, or try to hand them enough to make them drop it. But I think that... he ends up sharing it when he does things for others. The things he can't let go, the things he wants for himself.
[ (You get it.
You're the same way. It's why there's a kind of understanding, one that you share with Loop, too. Something aggravating and comforting. Similarities in a mirroring way. You think of the way Elysium slackened, as if his strings had been cut. An acceptance. A resignation. But not in a bad way.) ]
He isn't bothered by your gifts, by the way. But I don't think he knows what to do with them. His room is pretty barren, and a traveler keeps only what they can carry -- especially one that travels because he has nowhere he wants to be.