[He's quiet when he responds, unsure, but more obviously concerned now, no longer pacing- running now, bounding through the hall of the quiet little library where he'd been hanging out when she called him.]
Sorey's been acting strangely for a while now, but to a lesser extent, he's done this before. Hiding things, putting up a brave front, trying to be strong and acting fine even when he's not...
[They'd fought back then, too, and while it had all worked out okay in the end, there'd still been a price to pay before the problem corrected itself. And Lailah had told them so often that conflict caused malevolence to form. They'd spent so much time focusing on the external conflict that they hadn't realized how deep the internal damage could be, too.]
Be true and honest with yourself. That's what she told him. If he's pretending for our sake... if he's lying to himself... maybe even he hasn't realized until now what's happening.
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[He's quiet when he responds, unsure, but more obviously concerned now, no longer pacing- running now, bounding through the hall of the quiet little library where he'd been hanging out when she called him.]
Sorey's been acting strangely for a while now, but to a lesser extent, he's done this before. Hiding things, putting up a brave front, trying to be strong and acting fine even when he's not...
[They'd fought back then, too, and while it had all worked out okay in the end, there'd still been a price to pay before the problem corrected itself. And Lailah had told them so often that conflict caused malevolence to form. They'd spent so much time focusing on the external conflict that they hadn't realized how deep the internal damage could be, too.]
Be true and honest with yourself. That's what she told him. If he's pretending for our sake... if he's lying to himself... maybe even he hasn't realized until now what's happening.