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  1. Through the Living Hope
    Why was I mentioned?
  2. Through the Living Hope
    Hallway Aventine sat in the hallway with Jar Man and Ash. Her face was red and her breathing was still unsteady, but she was a lot calmer now. @InfiniteInsanity @Ookla of Ravens
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    "You saw how I got when Jar Man was doing drugs. That wasn't just a blind "don't do that". It was me knowing how it affects a person and the people around them. And when I was Rioting everyone before you left? That was the first time I've openly Rioted in 12 years. I was five when I Snapped and my parents made me stop when I was eight. Probably why it was noticed even without brass."
  4. Through the Living Hope
    "It's not Rioting itself. It's..." She took a deep breath, trying to calm herself down. "My father was an addict to just about everything. There was a time when he wasn't using them when he and my mother decided to have a child who was a Soother to help him stop. But that child ended up having the opposite power to what they wanted. They never let her use it, and they always said it was her fault she was born wrong. They didn't let her have any choice in her life. And it resulted in her seeming pushy and bossy when she got to the Clinic." She was looking at the lower wall.
  5. Through the Living Hope
    "Yeah, just..." She hesitated and shook her head. "It's a large part of what I was ranting about."
  6. Through the Living Hope
    "I'm a Rioter."
  7. Through the Living Hope
    "Just one." The wrong one...
  8. Through the Living Hope
    "Y-yeah."
  9. Through the Living Hope
    "Listen - if I misunderstood, I'm sorry, I've got a lot going on emotionally right now. May as well drown my trauma in the deaths of Tris and Uriah."
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  11. Through the Living Hope
    "You could at least pretend to care." Aventine stood up. "I'm going to the library. If anyone needs me, I'll be crying in the dystopian section."
  12. Through the Living Hope
    "Square. Frikkin. One."
  13. Through the Living Hope
    "I. Almost. Killed. Myself."
  14. Through the Living Hope
    "And, uh... well, I guess the more people who know, the better... an attempt."
  15. Through the Living Hope
    "Guess I was wrong. Neither of us had much of a choice. The middle ground is that both our lives suck in different ways. "Just the rantings of two tormented souls," she answered, staring at the ceiling.
  16. Through the Living Hope
    "My father hired assassins to kill me. Multiple times. Once when I Snapped. Once when I hit puberty. Once more around the time I decided to leave. Probably more I don't know about. Heck, there's probably one after me now. Maybe your past is worse. But at least you had a choice to take that path. I didn't."
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    "Bad enough to seek a nonconventional solution, I guess. And in addition to all that, I barely had a say in anything. Whether because of something that 'was' my fault, or because I was young, or a woman, I don't know. But I never got any sense of control over anything in my life. I had the wrong kind of Allomancy, so I wasn't allowed to use it. I might spill something about my parents, so I wasn't let out of their sight in social situations. I think that's part of the reason why I seemed... pushy when I first got here. I never had any control over myself, so when I finally had the chance to make decisions for myself... I tried to control too much."
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    She shook her head. "It's not that. He was an addict to anything he could get his hands on. He wanted to stop, but once you're hooked..." She stopped and forced a laugh. "I guess I don't need to tell you what happens. So, he and my mother decided to have a child who could Soothe - whenever he felt an urge to take them or if he went through withdrawal, they could soothe the urge and pain. So they had me. "But I wasn't a Soother. I was a Rioter - the opposite of what they wanted. I couldn't help anything, I could only make it worse. And for some reason, it was my fault. When I did the bucket thing, didn't you wonder at all how I knew that worked? Did it cross your mind that maybe I saw that practically every day my entire life?"
  19. Through the Living Hope
    Aventine sighed. "I was... I was supposed to be a Soother. My f-fa... my father-" She broke down again.
  20. Through the Living Hope
    "NO!"
  21. Through the Living Hope
    "I-I..." A bump in her throat rose and she couldn't speak - but she could still let out a sob.
  22. Through the Living Hope
    Aventine shook her head. "When you couldn't even... be born right..."
  23. Through the Living Hope
    "It's hard to... to let go when... when you couldn't even... couldn't even..." She trailed off. This guy... he's nice. But he's also like... like him.
  24. Through the Living Hope
    "May... maybe it's better... better for you, but... but it makes it... so much worse... for others..."
  25. Through the Living Hope
    "Why is.. life... it's... why is it so..."
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