All emotions need an outlet. Part of managing them is finding the right outlet, or at least the right time to let them out.
[Now, the smile that she turns to him transitions from sheepish to soft, in a way that makes her expression truly radiant.]
Sometimes that means solving a problem. Sometimes that means dedicating your efforts to ensuring that the same problem never arises again. Sometimes that means trying to put back into the world a measure of good equal to the evil that made you so angry. And sometimes it's as simple as weeping from the acceptance that there's nothing else that can be done for it.
[She pauses, reaching up to smooth his damp hair back behind one ear.]
It's not that I don't want your father to hate humans. Or — well. It is, but that's too simplistic a way of looking at it. It's that the only outlet he knows is to repay hurt with hurt in kind, when I want him to see that there are other ways of coping, too.
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[Now, the smile that she turns to him transitions from sheepish to soft, in a way that makes her expression truly radiant.]
Sometimes that means solving a problem. Sometimes that means dedicating your efforts to ensuring that the same problem never arises again. Sometimes that means trying to put back into the world a measure of good equal to the evil that made you so angry. And sometimes it's as simple as weeping from the acceptance that there's nothing else that can be done for it.
[She pauses, reaching up to smooth his damp hair back behind one ear.]
It's not that I don't want your father to hate humans. Or — well. It is, but that's too simplistic a way of looking at it. It's that the only outlet he knows is to repay hurt with hurt in kind, when I want him to see that there are other ways of coping, too.