"See: life's not fair as a universal...or multiversal constant," she agreed.
She lifted her head, smiling a little as he took the plate off. She really did seem to attract the oddest kinds of friendships.
"People sometimes don't leave you alone even if you're just a coffeeshop baker. Just because you," she hesitated for a moment, never having admitted this, even really fully to herself, "you've got the potential to be, um. Powerful. A lot more so than you would've chosen to be." Or they would've chosen you to be, since it meant you were maybe more than they could control. And now she felt like she'd taken off all her clothes, and not in a good way.
She hurried on, voice small, trying to put that behind her. "I guess it's hard to just...bow out of a story once it gets going. You keep being drawn back in, by other people, by responsibilities. I'd like to believe in...peace, someday."
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Date: 2008-12-06 01:27 am (UTC)She lifted her head, smiling a little as he took the plate off. She really did seem to attract the oddest kinds of friendships.
"People sometimes don't leave you alone even if you're just a coffeeshop baker. Just because you," she hesitated for a moment, never having admitted this, even really fully to herself, "you've got the potential to be, um. Powerful. A lot more so than you would've chosen to be." Or they would've chosen you to be, since it meant you were maybe more than they could control. And now she felt like she'd taken off all her clothes, and not in a good way.
She hurried on, voice small, trying to put that behind her. "I guess it's hard to just...bow out of a story once it gets going. You keep being drawn back in, by other people, by responsibilities. I'd like to believe in...peace, someday."