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Finally, Tarnished Offering capitulates to the other does presence and unspoken demand and asks, surly, "What do you want for me? Other than to speak?"
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Tarnished Offering stops, so then does Tastes Like Summer. The tawny doe has gone still. She is fighting hard not to scream, to let herself succumb to the rage. The rage is not meant for a doe like the sky doe in front of her. She cannot let herself become them who would happily turn their darkness on her goodness. She shook her head, less at the other doe's request and more at herself.
More silence.
Then, "These children- They have very little chance at having the goodness that is right for this world. Not with the parents they have.
She laughed at that. She meant herself more than anything else.
"Why do you think that?" Starburst asked gently.
Another laugh and then cold, scathing, condescending, "You don't know me."
"I don't," and it was kindly conceded. "But I question the veracity of your statement. Perhaps you simply do not see your goodness."
"And you do not see my darkness," Tarnished Offering sneered back, but she was afraid despite her bravado. And then one has to wonder, why was she afraid at the prospect of having kindness.
"I can't," she says after a long silence. What she can't do is a mystery, even to her, but she sets off running and though Starburst could easily catch up, she does not give chance.
Instead, she smiles softly before saying, "May your children see the truth in themselves and not want for kindness and goodness for it is so abundant as long as you can open your eyes to see it."