tetraethyl:

“I remember when we were just recruited and my first impression of you was of a dumb idiot who didn’t belong here. You laughed all the time. Smiled even more. You told me it was a choice you made, to be that way, and you didn’t regret it. I think about that. Do you remember when when you told me you admired my freedom? You said being born in silence wasn’t the curse I considered it to be, but an opportunity. I still think about what that meant. Every day. In the jungle, I thought you must’ve been mad, because silence was… deafening. It meant being defenseless. But I understand now. Do you remember Forgal? I never knew what a parent was, I assumed it was just a human thing, until he introduced me to what being family meant. Because of him, I had guidance which I was never offered before. Do you remember.. while I was grieving and lost after you died, and I met Ivar? He showed me love, unconditionally, ever since. And I remember what you showed me, Hua Ling. Friendship, that continues even after you’re gone.

Aurene.. I passed these things on to you in the best way I knew how, as an.. incomplete.. shell. I’m shaped by what matters most to me, and there was only one thing missing. I never knew what it was.. I never thought it mattered. But Aurene…

You gave me hope.

It wont be in vain.”

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