Vervain
Vai does raise an eyebrow at that - I had to drink from him - and while it doesn’t change anything, not with how much she’s already lived and grown and learned, she does make a mental note to bring it up with Zeph at a later date. ”Well I hope it’s a bit easier now, at least, to live there,” she says, able to imagine the exquisite pain of being around someone you wanted but couldn’t have. And that’s without the intimacy of an Ascended bite thrown in.
Sam continues to speak and Vai blows on her mug of tea, sending whorls of steam drifting up around her face. Her brow furrows, and when she smiles it’s a bittersweet sort of thing. ”I’ll tell you something I told someone else, recently,” she says. ”Perhaps it will be a bit easier for you to achieve than it will him. You have to love yourself, Sam. Above anyone else. There’s a saying, that... we receive the love we think we deserve. So if you think you deserve very little, then that’s what you’ll find in other people. Do you see what I mean?”
Sam continues to speak and Vai blows on her mug of tea, sending whorls of steam drifting up around her face. Her brow furrows, and when she smiles it’s a bittersweet sort of thing. ”I’ll tell you something I told someone else, recently,” she says. ”Perhaps it will be a bit easier for you to achieve than it will him. You have to love yourself, Sam. Above anyone else. There’s a saying, that... we receive the love we think we deserve. So if you think you deserve very little, then that’s what you’ll find in other people. Do you see what I mean?”
