Phoenix Maplewood Most disputes die and no one shoots

She knew the burden, knew the risks - but Lumi had shouldered far more than that. Her whole life she'd been told she was not good enough - that her efforts were futile in nature and that she may as well not have existed at all. When that came from a mother, it hit double the target and Lumi was afraid hers was broken from all the hits she'd received. Damaged goods were their whole family, shipped away on a boat going nowhere. It was time to get off it and realize that, everyone was damaged goods. Perhaps not. She sighed, curling around him as he turned away from her. Or perhaps you will find your calling in it as well. If not, you can return to being the clever, damaged brother I love somewhere far away again. — It never hurts to try. She tried to convince him, something she thought to be futile. Maybe you'll even find a pretty sweetheart I can betroth you to. She added with a little smirk, knowing not if that was what he was even looking for but wanting to make a cheeky comment regardless.