“Okay.”
She quietly and nervously explained that she felt negatively pressured by Intellect and Jakob. She would get better eventually, but she needed time to process and mentally-emotionally recover- time that Intellect refused to give her.
“It’d be better, yeah. I.. I’ll be okay, just.. not with Intellect and Jakob, the way they’re acting. If you want to go over and quietly explain to Ember, you can ask if he wants to come.”
“Well… probably, but if Intellect is going to be like this, I don’t want to be around him. I need time to mourn, and I’ll get better. If I pretend I’m okay, it’ll just get worse.”
“Oh. Okay.”
She glanced over at the group. “We could leave. Now. We could ask Ember if he wants to come with us, but no one else.”
@Through The Living Glass
“… me too…”
”If we’re staying, I don’t want to stay with this group. But Dirb’s son… I want to try to help somehow. He shouldn’t have to go through losing him.”