My own lighter, so I can stop borrowing Wolfwood's. [ this is a half joke, but. ]
...I never really thought about it. [ what she needs. she's been told to take care of herself, but getting by and surviving is what she does best. she's long abandoned the idea that she can simply ask for things and get them - too easy, too convenient, too unreal and out of reach for someone like her. it's been five weeks of this and it's one of the few things she has a hard time adjusting to. she's so used to going without. ]
[Kaveh smiles a little, though he nods in understanding.
It's meaningful, and important--remembering the dead like this, saying their own goodbyes. But it won't bring them back. Sometimes, that awareness weighs far too heavily. But at the same time... how could they just lay down and give up? Would it not infuriate those who left them behind, if they did? What purpose did it serve, enduring all of it, up to this point, if they stop pushing forward now?
It's just... complicated. Messy and miserable. He doesn't care what the reapers say; this is no privileged opportunity.]
[ it's not something entirely beyond her understanding for once. it's a nice gesture, all the same, and if she were any mood to she could kick herself for not thinking of it first. it's a good way to keep a fire going, albeit a little one, and that's something she could learn to tend to more. though she doesn't think the dead will be too upset with her when they aren't fire beings to begin with. but still, this is the only way she knows how deal with something like this. memorializing loss and grief. ]
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...I never really thought about it. [ what she needs. she's been told to take care of herself, but getting by and surviving is what she does best. she's long abandoned the idea that she can simply ask for things and get them - too easy, too convenient, too unreal and out of reach for someone like her. it's been five weeks of this and it's one of the few things she has a hard time adjusting to. she's so used to going without. ]
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It's meaningful, and important--remembering the dead like this, saying their own goodbyes. But it won't bring them back. Sometimes, that awareness weighs far too heavily. But at the same time... how could they just lay down and give up? Would it not infuriate those who left them behind, if they did? What purpose did it serve, enduring all of it, up to this point, if they stop pushing forward now?
It's just... complicated. Messy and miserable. He doesn't care what the reapers say; this is no privileged opportunity.]
I was thinking of asking if they had any incense.
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[ it's not something entirely beyond her understanding for once. it's a nice gesture, all the same, and if she were any mood to she could kick herself for not thinking of it first. it's a good way to keep a fire going, albeit a little one, and that's something she could learn to tend to more. though she doesn't think the dead will be too upset with her when they aren't fire beings to begin with. but still, this is the only way she knows how deal with something like this. memorializing loss and grief. ]
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[There is so little he can offer, nothing he can actually do to make any of this better. But he can't help wanting to try.]
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