[She supposes it's hilarious how similar they are. Letting others in in increments only. Closing and opening themselves to other people, even when they're friends, with so much hesitation. She wonders if it's pervasive to the children born on poor stations, or if they're just that sort of people. That sort of losers.
She wants to comfort him, in the same way she sometimes wants to comfort herself for her dependence on Finn. When the only person who'd loved her, her family though not by blood, had been taken, and her whole world had resumed itself to just him: the days until he'd turn eighteen, the airducts wide enough to crawl through and spent the night whispering through the ventilation in his cell, the horrible sinking possibility of him not being pardoned at all, for her spacewalk. And then one more time, when she found from Abby he was on the ground. Again, when she realized he wasn't hers anymore, maybe never had been like that, and the last time... The last time, she's still clinging onto, at times.
Because she wants to comfort him, she lets her fingers accidentally on purpose brush over his where he holds it near Zelo. Quietly,] Maybe being needed isn't all that cracked up as it's said to be. Maybe the best thing is to be wanted...
You should be proud, you know. Your sister ended up one of the sanest people I've met, and look where she started. If that happened, well...Come on, I'll connect the dots - you've likely gotta take some credit.
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She wants to comfort him, in the same way she sometimes wants to comfort herself for her dependence on Finn. When the only person who'd loved her, her family though not by blood, had been taken, and her whole world had resumed itself to just him: the days until he'd turn eighteen, the airducts wide enough to crawl through and spent the night whispering through the ventilation in his cell, the horrible sinking possibility of him not being pardoned at all, for her spacewalk. And then one more time, when she found from Abby he was on the ground. Again, when she realized he wasn't hers anymore, maybe never had been like that, and the last time... The last time, she's still clinging onto, at times.
Because she wants to comfort him, she lets her fingers accidentally on purpose brush over his where he holds it near Zelo. Quietly,] Maybe being needed isn't all that cracked up as it's said to be. Maybe the best thing is to be wanted...
You should be proud, you know. Your sister ended up one of the sanest people I've met, and look where she started. If that happened, well...Come on, I'll connect the dots - you've likely gotta take some credit.