reidentify | week 4 ( wednesday );

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week 4 ( wednesday );

[Nothing is even remotely fine, but Lief does what he always does: shove it down and keep moving.

—Which is what he's doing, quite literally, when he sees Fie, as he runs over to her. Unlike her, he has the blessing of being uninjured.]

Fie!

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Because there is no point in believing otherwise.

[Honestly? Lief isn't nearly optimistic enough to think that they're guaranteed to win this—and he knows that regardless, whether it be here or back home, he will soon die in disgrace.

But his life has been a series of hopeless situations, and he knows that everything ends only in one of two ways: death or, simply, deciding that it is over.]

[ ... such a Rean response, honestly, except that thinking about that only makes her throat tighten again. She wants to go home. She wants to see her family again. ]

I'm... so tired of this.

[... He doesn't know what to say to that. In the end, he can only repeat words once said to him, back home.]

Despair is the enemy. Do not let it defeat you.

[...]

I am sorry.

... Now you sound like Rean.

[ although that emerges shakily, there's at least a little bit of fondness in her tone.

Maybe it helps. ]

... Do I really?

Yeah. He was always the one giving pep talks... even though there was a lot on his shoulders and he had his share of doubts too.

That was even before I knew he was a noble.

[... Ah.]

I do not know if I am very good at pep talks myself. I confess that the words I said earlier—they have been said to me by another friend.

Rean sounds like a very good friend, though.

He is.

... What's your friend like?

She... Well, we have a different sort of friendship compared to what you have with Rean, I think. [He pauses.] She is old enough to be my grandmother, for one, though perhaps her age is what makes her wise.

[Not that he has many friends his age, nowadays.]

[ wow Lief, get hip. ]

... I do know some pretty smart old people. Maybe it's an age thing, like you said.

[Listen, where he's from, teenagers generally don't go around saving the world??]

Perhaps. [a beat] At the very least, my and Jasmine's hot-headed natures have often been attributed to our young ages.