"Growing up wondering if you'd ever really be loved," Eleanor said, with a small, distant smile, "you just wanted to cling to the idea that someone actually might...
"Yeah," Eleanor then sighed heavily. "I've been there, too. When I was eight, I was sent away to boarding school, pretty much just to get rid of me. I didn't even speak to anyone in my family until eight years later, when I ran away and came back home because I didn't know where else to go. And then.....and then I was so desperate to make things right that I brought in the one thing that would try to destroy us. And she almost did, just because I...
"I'm explaining this terribly," she realized, miserably. "But I really do understand, Arden. And I really was stupid; people got hurt. My father died. And so many people tried to warn me, but I just wanted to believe that everything would be okay..."
Re: NFB for this chunk, pls!
"Yeah," Eleanor then sighed heavily. "I've been there, too. When I was eight, I was sent away to boarding school, pretty much just to get rid of me. I didn't even speak to anyone in my family until eight years later, when I ran away and came back home because I didn't know where else to go. And then.....and then I was so desperate to make things right that I brought in the one thing that would try to destroy us. And she almost did, just because I...
"I'm explaining this terribly," she realized, miserably. "But I really do understand, Arden. And I really was stupid; people got hurt. My father died. And so many people tried to warn me, but I just wanted to believe that everything would be okay..."