responsibilities

Sohalia

And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
All around the world was waking, I never could go back

What are timelines, anyway? Don't ask me. Whether they'd done things the right or wrong way, in the right or wrong order, what did it matter? They were here, together, happy in their relationship as it was. Sure, people could talk or judge, but Soh always felt strangely oblivious to such things when she was with Jude. Truth be told, she couldn't have cared that much what people think, or she wouldn't have volunteered to lead Stormbreak.

Soh could have squealed with excitement at the prospect of Jude moving in and was already halfway through making a mental list of things to do to prepare when he frowned down at her legs. Tilting her head, she listened to his newest concern and paled. "Oh, um -" she said, her mind suddenly scrambling. She still felt horribly guilty for the way things had ended between she and Koa; despite the fact that they had never been exclusive, it still felt terribly like a breakup rather than a... well, whatever it was. "I didn't think about that, but..." She bit her lip in thought. "I don't know," she admitted. "It might be awkward, for a while, anyway, but it was only two dates. Surely he'll move on."

Still, with the display she'd seen in the Tower, she thought that Koa was rather more wounded than that. "I'm torn," she admitted. "I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable, but at the same time... I want us to live our lives, you know?" It didn't seem fair, to live their lives around other people's desires and demons. She sighed. "If I hadn't volunteered to lead here, we could just go somewhere else. I could move to Torchline, or we could find somewhere new." She winced. "I'm sorry. I feel like I made kind of a big life decision without getting your input first."

Cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn wide open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken