It gets easier. It took me nearly a year to just get used to... [Purses her lips together...] Things sticking... believe it or not.
Before here, just like... barely before here with only a teeeeeeensy weensy sliver in between, where I was, it always seemed like I could just...
[Crosses her eyes, thinking of how to convey it and sighs.] Alternate universes, yeah? And timelines. People could barely see me, hear me, recognize me, and I could barely touch reality there. It was like I was a ghost, and trying to stop a timeline from succumbing to the Darkness was... like drowning in quicksand. And even if people recognized me, if I messed up too much... I'd just jump again. Forward, backward, sideways, do my best to set things better, yeah?
Can't do that here. It's good... not being all... out of sync with everyone else. Really good. I don't think I hated anything quite like that, yeah? But it's also... tender. I was very angry with my best friend and couldn't handle him the way I really wanted to. We'd hurt each other too much and I couldn't get him to back off, and it just made me angrier...
[Waves a hand and snorts.] Just, take my word for it, yeah? It gets a lot easier than you'd think. Took me a year but -- [Weak grin!] Ask anyone. I'm as stubborn as they come. It's probably even easier for someone who doesn't feel the need to fight everything at every turn, yeah?
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Before here, just like... barely before here with only a teeeeeeensy weensy sliver in between, where I was, it always seemed like I could just...
[Crosses her eyes, thinking of how to convey it and sighs.] Alternate universes, yeah? And timelines. People could barely see me, hear me, recognize me, and I could barely touch reality there. It was like I was a ghost, and trying to stop a timeline from succumbing to the Darkness was... like drowning in quicksand. And even if people recognized me, if I messed up too much... I'd just jump again. Forward, backward, sideways, do my best to set things better, yeah?
Can't do that here. It's good... not being all... out of sync with everyone else. Really good. I don't think I hated anything quite like that, yeah? But it's also... tender. I was very angry with my best friend and couldn't handle him the way I really wanted to. We'd hurt each other too much and I couldn't get him to back off, and it just made me angrier...
[Waves a hand and snorts.] Just, take my word for it, yeah? It gets a lot easier than you'd think. Took me a year but -- [Weak grin!] Ask anyone. I'm as stubborn as they come. It's probably even easier for someone who doesn't feel the need to fight everything at every turn, yeah?