"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." — William Shakespeare ~ How unfortunately wise, his words. | #CamelotSacerde | Fan | AUish | Dark Themes | No Lewd
// Burnout’s a bitch, don’t do it.
That said, the temptation to flip this account (temporarily?) to Jester Lavorre to occasionally pop on and create minor chaos is strong while I await true writing capacity to return.
No, it’s definitely not her. Lena’s just unusually exhausted all the time and making an island of herself. As she does. She’s sorry she’s not been good at keeping in touch.
She wears her locket all the time, though.
It’s me. I’m both. My body is begging for sleep, but my brain denies such a thing even exists. Why can’t insomnia strike at the start of the weekend rather than at the end?
@Spurnedmother “Mam, don’t,” she scolds softly. Lena hates to tear herself away from the embrace, but she pulls back just enough to look into her mother’s eyes.
“This is one of the most precious gifts anyone has ever given me. I will always treasure it.”
There is a laugh, and the start of a joke about how, between the two of them, Lena could almost buy a whole country for herself already, but it falters to silence as she admires the gift. Her features fall into a wistful expression as she carefully opens the locket as the few ~
After so many wasted years, Erica would buy her a whole country if she could.
A handmade locket with a picture of them when Lena was a baby is the least she can do.
Crawled out of the lab and back into the world of the living— it’s a miracle, she knows.
Well, Lena would have been no help. It really snuck up on her this year. Maternal instincts to the rescue! Present? Mam didn’t have to get her anything.
"𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘐'𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘺 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘴 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘥." ~ Sleeping At Last - Two
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Running from your problems doesn’t fix them, and I’d lose the good things in my life as well.
Besides, I wouldn’t put it past certain family to find a way to track me down anyway. My brother is a narcissistic sociopath of a scientific genius. I would get a vacation at best.