[ Celeste settles in nicely against Odette, their legs entangled perfectly amidst the fine bedding. Even for unforgiving people like herself, and like Odette, it seems there is some softness to be found in the aftermath of such a fierce tryst.
Odette speaks of herself more directly, certainly, though there's something to be said about the ambivalence found in her tone, all the same, in the matter-of-factly way the words leave her mouth... Both of which are warranted, Celeste finds, when the words reach her and settle and something cold sinks in her heart.
Years ago, Celeste had wondered if her life would have turned out any differently if her birth parents had decided to keep her. Would she have been spared of suffering? But, as Odette's story percolates, she yet again comes to the conclusion that suffering is everywhere to be found, so long as mortals remain greedy and miserable.
Her lips draw into a thin line as the pads of her fingers press into Odette's back. ]
...Lowly scum. [ This, said with no small measure of vitriol. ] To put your own child through such suffering... How utterly abhorrent.
[ But still. But still. That Odette is here now speaks volumes. Like she, Odette found a way to escape her hellish life. ]
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Odette speaks of herself more directly, certainly, though there's something to be said about the ambivalence found in her tone, all the same, in the matter-of-factly way the words leave her mouth... Both of which are warranted, Celeste finds, when the words reach her and settle and something cold sinks in her heart.
Years ago, Celeste had wondered if her life would have turned out any differently if her birth parents had decided to keep her. Would she have been spared of suffering? But, as Odette's story percolates, she yet again comes to the conclusion that suffering is everywhere to be found, so long as mortals remain greedy and miserable.
Her lips draw into a thin line as the pads of her fingers press into Odette's back. ]
...Lowly scum. [ This, said with no small measure of vitriol. ] To put your own child through such suffering... How utterly abhorrent.
[ But still. But still. That Odette is here now speaks volumes. Like she, Odette found a way to escape her hellish life. ]
But you escaped?