Perhaps she’s a stubborn fool who doesn’t know what she’s talking about. After all, she hasn’t known Leon for that long and he’s only now just telling her about everything that he’s been through. But Lili hardly thinks that the time that you know someone or what you know about them should make that big a difference – not when a night was all it took for Yona, a stranger, to use her own body as a shield to protect Lili.
At the time, Lili had thought, I want to be like that.
She can’t shield Leon with her body, she can’t even pretend to believe that she’s strong enough to protect him against this place. But if he’s tired from hoping, from trying, then the least that she can do is manage that for him.
Yet she settles then, watching him. She can push and push - and god knows that she will for some time after – but it can’t all be done in one day.
Not after what he’s been through so she adds, without losing even an inch of her determination.]
… But belief is hard.
[Growing is hard. Trying to be strong is hard.]
So it’s fine if it’s not yet… but I won’t give up.
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[Perhaps she’s a fool.
Perhaps she’s a stubborn fool who doesn’t know what she’s talking about. After all, she hasn’t known Leon for that long and he’s only now just telling her about everything that he’s been through. But Lili hardly thinks that the time that you know someone or what you know about them should make that big a difference – not when a night was all it took for Yona, a stranger, to use her own body as a shield to protect Lili.
At the time, Lili had thought, I want to be like that.
She can’t shield Leon with her body, she can’t even pretend to believe that she’s strong enough to protect him against this place. But if he’s tired from hoping, from trying, then the least that she can do is manage that for him.
Yet she settles then, watching him. She can push and push - and god knows that she will for some time after – but it can’t all be done in one day.
Not after what he’s been through so she adds, without losing even an inch of her determination.]
… But belief is hard.
[Growing is hard. Trying to be strong is hard.]
So it’s fine if it’s not yet… but I won’t give up.
[Not on this.
Not on you.
That is her promise.]