[ there's something so simple and almost helpless about how she says it. a baring of naivete and vulnerability that is so unlike the person alina starkov has become. ]
Not anymore. That's why —
[ she is full of excuses, of justifications. but to offer a real explanation of the circumstance threatens to turn the fire behind her eyes to water. she swallows, bites down on her lip and chokes on the vulnerability and rids herself of it.
then pretends that it's her doing ianthe a favor, and not her hiding away something she would regret opening to discussion. ]
I'm sorry. We don't have to do this now. You have so much more to worry about than me.
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[ there's something so simple and almost helpless about how she says it. a baring of naivete and vulnerability that is so unlike the person alina starkov has become. ]
Not anymore. That's why —
[ she is full of excuses, of justifications. but to offer a real explanation of the circumstance threatens to turn the fire behind her eyes to water. she swallows, bites down on her lip and chokes on the vulnerability and rids herself of it.
then pretends that it's her doing ianthe a favor, and not her hiding away something she would regret opening to discussion. ]
I'm sorry. We don't have to do this now. You have so much more to worry about than me.