[Been a while since someone's used Wanheda like that. There's some comfort in it, some familiarity.
Clarke should have known that he'd take up the tradition all too easily.]
I used to think so, too, [she says gently. Josephine, who'd been in her head, had believed the same. Had been the same: clinging to life desperately. Clarke knows it's not the way to live. It's not selfish to want to live, but it is to want to live forever, choosing one life over another.
Sometimes that choice is necessary. But it's not the only choice to ever present itself.]
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Clarke should have known that he'd take up the tradition all too easily.]
I used to think so, too, [she says gently. Josephine, who'd been in her head, had believed the same. Had been the same: clinging to life desperately. Clarke knows it's not the way to live. It's not selfish to want to live, but it is to want to live forever, choosing one life over another.
Sometimes that choice is necessary. But it's not the only choice to ever present itself.]
I'm really trying to see it differently.