Her mother always said, you cannot turn back the clock - you must always live your life fully, in the present moment. But gods, she wishes she could. If she had even a fraction of Sothis's power, she could turn it back - stop this, all of this, and make sure they were safe. That no one had ever died at all.
But she doesn't, and she can't, and now four people she cares about are dead.
She spends more time than she ought to in her cabin, crying. By the time she emerges, her eyes are bloodshot, and her already-messed-up face is even more of a mess, but she doesn't seem to care about her appearance.
...it's only the fact that Dimitri is sitting by the bonfire that gets her to pay attention to her surroundings. She pauses, and then swallows hard.]
w4, friday
Her mother always said, you cannot turn back the clock - you must always live your life fully, in the present moment. But gods, she wishes she could. If she had even a fraction of Sothis's power, she could turn it back - stop this, all of this, and make sure they were safe. That no one had ever died at all.
But she doesn't, and she can't, and now four people she cares about are dead.
She spends more time than she ought to in her cabin, crying. By the time she emerges, her eyes are bloodshot, and her already-messed-up face is even more of a mess, but she doesn't seem to care about her appearance.
...it's only the fact that Dimitri is sitting by the bonfire that gets her to pay attention to her surroundings. She pauses, and then swallows hard.]
...Dimitri...