[This isn't where she thought the night would lead. This is never where she thinks the day might end, this is one of those secrets that she hasn't divulged to anyone. Nobody comes to Eudio to hear about your sad story, right? Everything is fun, and sexy, and that's all that counts.
Except - sometimes, to lift a burden, you share one of yours.]
My mother. [Two words. Not Annabeth, but my mother. My mother, who could've learnt to love us better, given time, who loved us well enough to go to war all because of my plans, my decisions.] Right before I came here, she... [She doesn't smoke, so the inhale is shaky just because it is.]
It was my plans that ended her in the middle of a battle she knew nothing about. But I have to think...I have to think it was her choices, that had her stay. And someone else's sword that --
[Silence. Spanned over one, two, three - inhale.] The people who love us will do anything for us, even if it gets them hurt. And we can't blame ourselves for that love, anymore than we'd let them blame themselves when we did the same.
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Except - sometimes, to lift a burden, you share one of yours.]
My mother. [Two words. Not Annabeth, but my mother. My mother, who could've learnt to love us better, given time, who loved us well enough to go to war all because of my plans, my decisions.] Right before I came here, she... [She doesn't smoke, so the inhale is shaky just because it is.]
It was my plans that ended her in the middle of a battle she knew nothing about. But I have to think...I have to think it was her choices, that had her stay. And someone else's sword that --
[Silence. Spanned over one, two, three - inhale.] The people who love us will do anything for us, even if it gets them hurt. And we can't blame ourselves for that love, anymore than we'd let them blame themselves when we did the same.