a ray of light shone in my darkness

[bearshermark]

WHO: Eleven + various! YOU, if u want
WHEN: Late May
WHERE: The farm
WHAT: Catch-all for misc threads
WARNINGS: Violence, dark topics?

[ooc: prompts in comments. if you've got an idea for a thread outside of El's open thread that you think would work better here, go for it. If you'd like to work something out, pm or plurk!]

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[bearshermark]

Eleven breathes a shaken sigh, quieting to soak in the man's kind comfort and reassurance. Slowly steadying as Wei Wuxian's advice serves to strengthen a wavering resolve. There is, after all, a fragile part of him that does wish to give up- to lay down and accept his curse of powerlessness for what it is and watch the world crumble, assured in the knowledge that there isn't anything he can do. Remembers the feeling when setting out from the Emerald Coast; that bleak hour in which he'd truly walked alone.

But if nothing else, his title has shown him the power he craves, if not the path with which to achieve it. The gentle reminder also serves to highlight that he's brought this on himself in part, because of course it's difficult and painful. Working in direct opposition to the forces Yggdrasil had set him against on Her behalf doesn't mean it would be any easier to combat them.

It isn't that everything he's done has been futile; there are just things he needs to do that have now been made clear.

"I can do that," he decides aloud, taking in another breath and shifting back by degrees in a gradual extrication. "I told Archeval I would keep trying, and I've made a few friends here."

He imagines it goes without saying that he counts Wei Wuxian among those friends.