--But, as luck would have it, God was smiling down on that very creature who believed he had been utterly forsaken! His path and the cleric's met once again. The cleric found his woeful companion through the storm, and he held his hand out to him. In a very manly and completely heroic fashion, he draped the smaller in his coat and he said...
"I'm your friend, and you're not alone."
...Then they hugged, and our dear little youth found that the path he walked, however troubled... was not quite so terrible when it wasn't so lonely. The pain he caused himself by pretending his heart was hardened to the world was eased when he let it in again.
[though he's grinning idiotically with the stupidest wink ever, there is something sincere in his eyes as he says the last of it.]
And he realized the only reason he was so afraid of being hurt was because there was still love left in him, or he wouldn't have felt a single thing at all.
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--But, as luck would have it, God was smiling down on that very creature who believed he had been utterly forsaken! His path and the cleric's met once again. The cleric found his woeful companion through the storm, and he held his hand out to him. In a very manly and completely heroic fashion, he draped the smaller in his coat and he said...
"I'm your friend, and you're not alone."
...Then they hugged, and our dear little youth found that the path he walked, however troubled... was not quite so terrible when it wasn't so lonely. The pain he caused himself by pretending his heart was hardened to the world was eased when he let it in again.
[though he's grinning idiotically with the stupidest wink ever, there is something sincere in his eyes as he says the last of it.]
And he realized the only reason he was so afraid of being hurt was because there was still love left in him, or he wouldn't have felt a single thing at all.