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Who: new citizens
When: Day 36, later afternoon
Where: Shrine room
What:

[the pitter patter of new little feet]

[ Aven and Lady (Trigger) | Amber | Iskandar ]

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[a-and . . .]

I know you're not proud of it. That's why I can't settle for ignoring you being like this. And even from what little I've heard . . . I know you couldn't break out. And how broken you and others became.

But you're still ignoring this open sky. This flock that's waiting . . . wishing for you to soar again. Just because they might have someone else doesn't mean they want someone else. They want you. Don't you remember the feeling when everyone gathered to watch Spitfire's message? Realizing what it meant that they still believed in us after we'd been useless for so long? That's exactly what's happened here, only you're too stubborn to see it clearly.

You and I both know forgetting the past isn't what needs to happen. All you have to do is break out of the cage you built for yourself. It's the only one that exists here.

If you want to be babied and act like everything's fine and you don't need any help, you're just going to stay on the ground like this forever.

[braces a hand on her shoulder as she tugs, but goes along with it this time]

. . .

I don't want to be babied. And I ain't taking my hatred out on you. I don't hate myself - I hate that I failed. That's it.

. . .

[goes quiet again, like he's done talking, but . . . it's quiet, low, only for them to hear]

I don't know how to break out.