[It's pretty easy to play around and make light of things, but even Sal knows an important moment when it happens. So many times she's turned away from them, leaving things ignored or watched them pass her by. Sometimes a prison is self-made, and you've got to watch your life burn down first before you can try to build yourself again.]
I know how it feels to want to distance yourself from something in the past. Names and legacies can have a damn heavy weight to them, after a while. Maybe I'm too biased (of course not, my opinion's fucking perfect) but I don't think your saving the world had anything to do with this ancestor of yours.
Some cynical asshole like me wouldn't buy this story from just anyone either—but if anyone has the strength, the wisdom, and the bravery to do any of this, if I'm to believe in any person pulling some fantastic feat of heroics off it's you.
Just by being who you are, not whatever they all expected you to be. I think you change lives here, too, so why not your own? Whatever the fuck you want to do and whatever shred of happiness can be stolen out of a place like this, Anathema, I know you're going to find it.
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I know how it feels to want to distance yourself from something in the past. Names and legacies can have a damn heavy weight to them, after a while. Maybe I'm too biased (of course not, my opinion's fucking perfect) but I don't think your saving the world had anything to do with this ancestor of yours.
Some cynical asshole like me wouldn't buy this story from just anyone either—but if anyone has the strength, the wisdom, and the bravery to do any of this, if I'm to believe in any person pulling some fantastic feat of heroics off it's you.
Just by being who you are, not whatever they all expected you to be. I think you change lives here, too, so why not your own? Whatever the fuck you want to do and whatever shred of happiness can be stolen out of a place like this, Anathema, I know you're going to find it.