[It's funny: in literature, when the character had this kind of revelation, this was part of a larger story arc where they eventually learn that they're using this experience to run away from their own problems, and they were living in a fantasy.
What fantasy?
This was a harder life than she'd ever had. She was pampered in her time in comparison, expected to study hard and eventually become the wife of a man she didn't even know.
The Inko Hakuba of now would never accept being the wife of a man she doesn't know: she'll be disowned before that happens.
She's traveled through open desert by herself, dashed through towns and found her wings. She wasn't the same person anymore...]
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Date: 2024-02-24 12:55 am (UTC)I just...
I...
[Her arms tremble, just a little.]
I'm not going back.
[It's funny: in literature, when the character had this kind of revelation, this was part of a larger story arc where they eventually learn that they're using this experience to run away from their own problems, and they were living in a fantasy.
What fantasy?
This was a harder life than she'd ever had. She was pampered in her time in comparison, expected to study hard and eventually become the wife of a man she didn't even know.
The Inko Hakuba of now would never accept being the wife of a man she doesn't know: she'll be disowned before that happens.
She's traveled through open desert by herself, dashed through towns and found her wings. She wasn't the same person anymore...]
There is nothing...waiting for me there.