Catch-all: Luxanna

[ercnerd]

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[ercnerd]

. . . Then I won't say anything.

Have you figured out what to do about your world?

[illuminance]

You should speak your mind.

I'm still sorting it out, but I know the gist of what I would like.

[ercnerd]

[He nods. That's good.]

If I'm going to speak my mind, I'll need you to speak yours.

[illuminance]

... That might be a touch depressing, for what should be a lighter occasion.

[ lux has had? a very bad 7 weeks? ]

[ercnerd]

If everything were light, nothing would be bright anymore. I don't mind.

[illuminance]

Ah, of course. A shadow thrives beside the light, after all.

[ ... ]

Things have been difficult. I don't think it requires much explanation for me to say so.

[ercnerd]

I don't need the explanation. I just want your honest thoughts.

[illuminance]

Then...

[ you know, somehow it's easier to say this to someone she doesn't know that well, compared to a friend. ]

... I worry that my light gave out. It did not provide me, nor anyone else comfort.

[ercnerd]

That's because the story stifled it.

[He says this simply and not unkindly.]

It didn't give out on its own.

[illuminance]

But what good is it if it cannot hold up against anything and everything? My faith that it can has been what's guided me my whole life.

[ercnerd]

The way of thinking is too green.

Luxanna. It's understandable for you to be shaken. The light you believe in didn't burn as brightly as you'd hoped. But even a regular dimension can be a harsh place that challenges your faith on-the-daily, and this one has been anything but. A single person couldn't have hoped to comfort everyone here with their different beliefs and the story's unfair rules.

[illuminance]

[ lux sighs, but does give this due consideration. ]

... Perhaps... Still, I would have at least liked to do more good than bad. I'm not sure I even managed that.

[ercnerd]

Whether or not you managed it, you did what you could. Sometimes that's all we can do.