Would you like to hear of it? [she doesn't wait for him to reply before continuing.] There is a certain balance within all of us. A measure of light and of dark. Yin and yang, my brother calls it. We each have it within us. The things that others do... Which effect us... They can throw us off balance. [it isn't that she particularly thinks Lucas will care about what she has to say- it's that by keeping her voice low and her tone level, she'll give him something to listen to. to at least partially focus on past whatever's in his head.

it honestly disturbs her to see a child looking like that. she's seen too many children with that same thousand-yard stare.]


[ooc; I forsee many tears in this thread ;A;]