holdsodear: (pretend i'm not surrounded)
Mrs. Eleanor Bradley ([personal profile] holdsodear) wrote in [personal profile] oratorical 2017-01-05 05:17 pm (UTC)

[Eleanor falls quiet for a long pause once more, as Leia's words strike a chord she had not been addressing. Similar to her conversation with Kylo, and yet not, though it was not the time or place for such a comparison. Finally:]

... Would it be funny to say that I don't truly have an answer for that? I've been going in circles over it for months. There is no going back to what we were, and our family would never be that again -- I've accepted that. I'd rather know the truth as it is. But now I have that to worry about ...

[The trust issues. There had been too many lies, to tell just much how she had been used--or deserved to be. She attempts to adopt a lighter tone, to try and deflect from the sad irony of it all.]

But that's just the darker side of love, isn't it? I've ... never been so lonely.

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