“You protect yourself in hiding. What use is that to those you’ve wronged.”
There is, after all, a difference between making oneself useful— between the comfort of smoking and sitting and skirting duty— and truly setting all focus on a better cause: locked in course and purpose like a broken bone meant to be knit. “There is no more time left to burn. You cannot distract yourself, you cannot run from the pain— there is no distance in this world or any other that is wide enough.”
A slow pause, heavy enough that Gabranth feels it in his shoulders, for how he struggles to press the words between his teeth:
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Date: 2021-04-19 05:49 pm (UTC)There is, after all, a difference between making oneself useful— between the comfort of smoking and sitting and skirting duty— and truly setting all focus on a better cause: locked in course and purpose like a broken bone meant to be knit. “There is no more time left to burn. You cannot distract yourself, you cannot run from the pain— there is no distance in this world or any other that is wide enough.”
A slow pause, heavy enough that Gabranth feels it in his shoulders, for how he struggles to press the words between his teeth:
"I will help you."