[ The supposed certainty of his response, though, is familiar. She'd been pretty sure of her own fate once upon a time; these days she's gotten far more used to being surprised and far less inclined toward absolutes. So, ]
Everything?
[ It's a silent echo of his own word back at him, a challenge without being phrased as such. His life seems to her to be far less desolate now than it was before, at least from the outside, and having followed a similar path toward becoming a person herself over the past year or so, she knows she's got a lot more to appreciate these days. Perhaps that can go for both of them, if he's willing to hear of it. In any case; ]
I used to think so, too. But now I'm not so sure that everything is as simple as the adults like to say it is.
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[ The supposed certainty of his response, though, is familiar. She'd been pretty sure of her own fate once upon a time; these days she's gotten far more used to being surprised and far less inclined toward absolutes. So, ]
Everything?
[ It's a silent echo of his own word back at him, a challenge without being phrased as such. His life seems to her to be far less desolate now than it was before, at least from the outside, and having followed a similar path toward becoming a person herself over the past year or so, she knows she's got a lot more to appreciate these days. Perhaps that can go for both of them, if he's willing to hear of it. In any case; ]
I used to think so, too.
But now I'm not so sure that everything is as simple as the adults like to say it is.