@satrarost
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“How did I know… that I loved him?” Satra’s smile came slowly after that, memory reviving in her eyes, and yes it was silly and girlish, but if one couldn’t relish the feeling that love brought even now, there were many things in the world one couldn’t feel. Emptiness may seem like freedom, but it was a cage in itself after too long.
“You may understand this since we are often alike, but I think I knew… when I found I was happier with him than when I was alone. Several people… other people had made me happy before, but never happier than I was to be by myself. So I always broke it off, because I felt great satisfaction with my life just how it was. But he made it worthwhile to go out of my places of comfort. He made me more satisfied than even I was on my own and I thought I was perfectly happy on my own. I suppose that’s how I knew.”
Her smile at last reached her eyes, leaning in toward her daughter, gaze sparkling. “Are you asking because you have someone particular in mind?”
Rey instantly turned red when her mother used the ‘L’ word, her eyes moving away almost instantly, hands in her lap. Her heart pounded against her ribs as she listened to what Satra told her. She knew she loved her father because he made her happier than when she was alone. She understood that completely. She blinked a few times and glanced at her mother again when she asked if Rey had anyone particular in mind. Her eyes widened even more as the pink blush across her cheeks now turned crimson and went up to the tips of her ears.
Ben flashed before her and she shook her head. “No...no I don’t...why would I? I have....far too much to do than to focus on falling in love,” she scoffed, her face hot as the sun.