❛ won’t you please let me into your heart? ❜ ( cosette & sansa! )
I GAVE YOU ALL THE LOVE I’VE GOT.
her face is blank, mind thoroughly guarded, impervious to any possible infiltration. she tries, just for a moment, to show her pain to sansa, anything to make herself feel real, look real, but the attempt is so unnatural that returning to something that can be described only as neutral, but empty.
‘ i’m trying. believe me, i am. ‘
her hands shake and the ice begins to melt — disturbing stoicism gives way to the fluttering of eyelashes, the opening of a mouth, the tremble of a bottom lip as she tries to speak.
‘ i know i don’t look like i am, but i am trying. you don’t know how hard it would be for me, if you were to be hurt because of me. you can say that you’re not afraid, that you are the one who came to me in the first place, but it doesn’t get rid of the fact that i am dangerous for you to be around. ‘