[ This isn't a revelatory statement. Ilde had not understood either, until the Station had taken her daydreams and made them into reality: root and fiber and petal. With her brood gone and the others at a distance, even, she has spent only more time listening. ]
I attempted to explain but, quite plainly, they care more for their heroics than anything else.
[ A pinch of annoyance, a sore point for her as of late. One reason, of several, that she is here on the Station, and not below lurking in dark corners, ready and able to coerce and condemn. She wonders, idly, what it would be like to take Cathaway from the Station, truly. Take her, her deft hands, and their knife into the street. ]
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[ This isn't a revelatory statement. Ilde had not understood either, until the Station had taken her daydreams and made them into reality: root and fiber and petal. With her brood gone and the others at a distance, even, she has spent only more time listening. ]
I attempted to explain but, quite plainly, they care more for their heroics than anything else.
[ A pinch of annoyance, a sore point for her as of late. One reason, of several, that she is here on the Station, and not below lurking in dark corners, ready and able to coerce and condemn. She wonders, idly, what it would be like to take Cathaway from the Station, truly. Take her, her deft hands, and their knife into the street. ]
( What can I do, to help? )
[ The Station was a priority. ]