@daredbetter, continued from here
❝ don’t say that. ❞ she knows everything’s gone to shit. knows there’s a pretty good chance they’ll be stuck on the god-forsaken planet for a while. but it’s against her nature to be anything but optimistic, no matter how cold the realities were. so she does what she does best : talk.
❝ i’ve got you, and we’re gonna be fine. it’d be pretty shitty of me to let a new friend die in a place like this, wouldn’t it? they say a lot of things about me, but i swear, i’m not that bad. i am pretty selfish though, and i want to get to know you better. so you’re not allowed to talk like that, or think like that, got it ? ❞
ASK MEME / @empathicstars
The breath that Aella releases is not, she recognizes, as stable as she wishes it, or attempts to will it. She closes expressive black eyes, leans her head back -- attempts to erase the pain buzzing and boiling in her body, the memories roiling in her head. Attempts to focus on the other’s words. New friend. Amusing. Strange. ‘Friend’. “Yes, sir,” she murmurs, anyway -- though it is clear from the tonality in her voice that she is unconvinced.
“... What is it you wish to know?”