Did you ever....want something to be true so bad...
Somehow, that knife that had slipped between Arden's ribs a moment ago managed to find its way between Eleanor's and she winced, letting out a faint near-whimper.
"I know," she said, "exactly what you mean, Arden." She shook her head. "More than you realize, more than I can...You're not an idiot."
As far as Eleanor could tell, at least Arden's naïveté didn't have a body count.
"You're just..." There was a small moment, which she took to summon up a little Kamala in her ear as she breathed out, "a good person, Arden, who wants to see the best in someone, even when they might not be worthy of that. Because you don't want to believe that anyone would ever be like that, even when the evidence is right in front of you, staring you in the face. Because it hurts too much thinking of what it means if you were wrong."
Re: NFB for this chunk, pls!
Somehow, that knife that had slipped between Arden's ribs a moment ago managed to find its way between Eleanor's and she winced, letting out a faint near-whimper.
"I know," she said, "exactly what you mean, Arden." She shook her head. "More than you realize, more than I can...You're not an idiot."
As far as Eleanor could tell, at least Arden's naïveté didn't have a body count.
"You're just..." There was a small moment, which she took to summon up a little Kamala in her ear as she breathed out, "a good person, Arden, who wants to see the best in someone, even when they might not be worthy of that. Because you don't want to believe that anyone would ever be like that, even when the evidence is right in front of you, staring you in the face. Because it hurts too much thinking of what it means if you were wrong."