[She's not very good at waiting when there are plans to be made, she's very much the type to get all the threads tied up, clear paths made to follow, but without information there isn't much.]
I can talk to him about it. He may as well know I'm going to be helping.
[How Lark will actually feel about that is up in the air, but she can draw quite well herself and she'd rather hear it directly rather than filtered through more people.]
I do still believe in what this place could be. I know firsthand that there isn't always something better waiting for someone when they leave here. If all I had to return to from here was Jakku, knowing what I know now, I wouldn't want to go back there. For some people, this is as good as their lives have gotten. I don't want to take that away.
And I- there are some things I never would have learned if I hadn't come here. That I like apples, for example. [And she smiles at him, and it's kind and something she learned here.] I never would have learned the things I'm capable of letting myself do, or be, for other people. I wouldn't take back coming here, even after everything all of the bad things that followed the good.
[This is turning into some sort of speech though, and she hates that, so she pulls a segment off of her orange and hands it over to him. For her, sharing food is no small thing, and she knows he's aware of that.]
But for it to mean anything, this can't be a place that makes men like Alfie wish they were dead. There has to be hope or all of it means nothing.
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Date: 2016-11-14 09:03 pm (UTC)I can talk to him about it. He may as well know I'm going to be helping.
[How Lark will actually feel about that is up in the air, but she can draw quite well herself and she'd rather hear it directly rather than filtered through more people.]
I do still believe in what this place could be. I know firsthand that there isn't always something better waiting for someone when they leave here. If all I had to return to from here was Jakku, knowing what I know now, I wouldn't want to go back there. For some people, this is as good as their lives have gotten. I don't want to take that away.
And I- there are some things I never would have learned if I hadn't come here. That I like apples, for example. [And she smiles at him, and it's kind and something she learned here.] I never would have learned the things I'm capable of letting myself do, or be, for other people. I wouldn't take back coming here, even after everything all of the bad things that followed the good.
[This is turning into some sort of speech though, and she hates that, so she pulls a segment off of her orange and hands it over to him. For her, sharing food is no small thing, and she knows he's aware of that.]
But for it to mean anything, this can't be a place that makes men like Alfie wish they were dead. There has to be hope or all of it means nothing.