To put it shortly, you're someone who's worthy of kindness. I'm truly sorry that your parents never saw that, but it's clear to me. To Aster, to Aloe... To Acidia.
[looks down at his hands as they fiddle with a napkin, twisting it into little shapes idly]
Everyone oughta be worthy of it. But it never works out that way. What oughta be don' really happen. We oughta be never livin' boat life after all. But we all ended up there in the grinder. Ground all up. Aster and the other kids ain't deserved none of that.
And even if I did deserve it, I ain't want it. Pain and a grinder and all.
... You're right that you seldom get what you deserve, stuck there. And I don't think you've gotten it even before boarding the boat. But I think all of us take that as further reason to show kindness to you, and to each other.
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To put it shortly, you're someone who's worthy of kindness. I'm truly sorry that your parents never saw that, but it's clear to me. To Aster, to Aloe... To Acidia.
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...
[looks down at his hands as they fiddle with a napkin, twisting it into little shapes idly]
Everyone oughta be worthy of it. But it never works out that way. What oughta be don' really happen. We oughta be never livin' boat life after all. But we all ended up there in the grinder. Ground all up. Aster and the other kids ain't deserved none of that.
And even if I did deserve it, I ain't want it. Pain and a grinder and all.
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I'm... attempting to do better at it. I know that means fairly little for now, but regardless.
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