@FlitterFauxLuke Schwarz
"Yeah. You can trust me."Whether or not I was running headfirst into a fool's errand with those words didn't matter. Secrecy about the past wasn't new to me, and if Skye could open up to a basically complete stranger like myself...
Didn't that suggest that she'd soon be able to tell people on her own? I wouldn't even need to blab. She would really save herself, like Tanner always said of people.
All I needed to do was be present for it.
"Nothing said here will frivolously leave my lips, don't worry. I'm not much for the rumor mill."All that aside, it didn't hurt to clarify myself further. Call it indulgent, but I never got to say a cool line for real these days, you know? As the everyman, I was stuck always being disoriented and confused...
But, back on the point:
This wasn't something to back out of. Even if I couldn't help, I had promised I would listen.
That could be enough. It could not.
Whether it was or it wasn't, it was something I wanted-- No, needed to do. I had a sinking feeling, brought on by knowing how these scenes always went in stories, that I had just gotten in way over my head...
But what mattered was that, at least, I could keep my word on it.