hyperlit: (◈ ᴛʜᴏᴜɢʜ sᴜᴄʜ ᴀ ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ)
ᴅʀɪғᴛᴇʀ ([personal profile] hyperlit) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr 2019-03-16 03:21 am (UTC)

[They can't call it paying it forward, because they don't know the terminology, but that's the general gist. They cannot change the fact that they are dying, approaching an end that will someday come. They can only do all in their power to ensure that when they do pass on for good, they leave the world, and all that it entails, better than when they found it.]

[Kindness is a finer weapon than any blade, but harder by far to wash clean.]

[They don't feel the need to push any points with her. They'd be the wrong one to, in any case. But they watch her get to her feet, and...she's alive.]

[That's what matters.]


owe nothing

[The hypocrisy of this sentiment strikes them, but they ignore it. The important thing is that they are pouring this out forward, and not doing it with the intention of exchange or reward.]

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