Count Your Blessings

"I...I su-suppose you're right. But I don't feel close with any of those...br-brothers or sisters. ...Except Isla now, I suppose. But all the rest of them look down on me, because I'm not...not strong. Like them. I'm too s-sensitive." Sam barely dared to look up at the Voice, but the gentleness in his voice comforted him enough to make him not feel so apologetic anymore, and he lifted his head just slightly. It seemed she didn't mind that Remi had made the upgrade. Sam spread his fingers out over the ground, feeling the cold and the texture of the stone. "...What...wh-what do you think of him? I think we might...become...s-something more. Maybe. Is that alright? L-love? Or something...close with...people who aren't A-ascended?" SAMUEL Another little digit on my lifespan, what a bore And what once was fresh and green Now marches in the ranks of the obscene This whole transfiguration thing is such a chore