[He’d anticipated spending the whole of his afternoon as sullen as spent ash. This— as so much of what Byerly seems to manage effortlessly— utterly displaces those designs. And for it he needs a moment longer to regain whatever mindset he’d lost.]
He wishes to change. It pulls at him like a thread laid bare.
[Benedict forgive him for speaking so plainly of his private pains.]
He lacks momentum, guidance, clarity— the means to understand where he falls short, and a deepset fear of that failure. It is a rot, that. It will not heal if he continues on as he does, for the man nearly shattered before me in confession this morning.
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Date: 2021-04-25 10:40 pm (UTC)He wishes to change. It pulls at him like a thread laid bare.
[Benedict forgive him for speaking so plainly of his private pains.]
He lacks momentum, guidance, clarity— the means to understand where he falls short, and a deepset fear of that failure. It is a rot, that. It will not heal if he continues on as he does, for the man nearly shattered before me in confession this morning.
He will break, in time. This much I believe.