I've lost faith in them to do anything but protect their own. I'd like to think I'm above it, but I'm not so sure anymore. I'm as selfish as the rest of them.
( but pierce isn't here to be the receptacle of her guilt or her shame, and trying it feels ill-advised, with pierce's everything — like tickling a snake's fangs, and expecting it to have sympathy for your soft skin, instead of biting down. )
You'll understand if a person's words doesn't mean much to me, lately. I can't promise I'll believe you, even if you swear it to me. But perhaps we might be able to agree to help each other, if the other dies while one still lives.
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( but pierce isn't here to be the receptacle of her guilt or her shame, and trying it feels ill-advised, with pierce's everything — like tickling a snake's fangs, and expecting it to have sympathy for your soft skin, instead of biting down. )
You'll understand if a person's words doesn't mean much to me, lately. I can't promise I'll believe you, even if you swear it to me. But perhaps we might be able to agree to help each other, if the other dies while one still lives.