3 ∅ [Anonymous Text]

[callbacks]

[Cleared font formatting, check. Autocorrect, check. Masked I.D., triple check. Dave's been wrestling with this question for over a week, and he's no closer to an answer than he was eight days ago. No closer than he was three years ago.

Where's Dear Abby when you need advice?]

Have you ever been in a situation
Where you knew something somebody else didn't
And you weren't sure if you should tell them or not
Like you knew that if they found out they'd be really upset but there's also nothing they could do about it
And you don't want them to blame themselves
Or
Get mad at you
But pretending it didn't happen feels
I don't know
A lot like lying I guess
What would you do in those circumstances?

I'm asking for a friend.

Comments

[private text]

[defyingfrigidity]

[Even after a year here, after being exposed to different kinds of magic and all sorts of new things the other outsiders here talked about, Elsa... doesn't quite get what it is he's talking about. But she tries.]

So this thing happened because of uncontrollable forces that are greater than you?

That's even more of a reason why it's not your fault. If you had no way of stopping or changing it... it's a horrible thing, yes, but it was something out of your control.

[private text]

[callbacks]

rose
my sister told me that maybe i was just relying on the unalterable alpha timeline shit to justify what i wouldve done anyway though
and i dont know if she was wrong
im
i think i really fucked up

[private text]

[defyingfrigidity]

You can't let others try and tell you what you were feeling. The only one who truly knows why you wanted to take these actions is you.

Your sister... does she know the full story? Did you tell her everything about what you were feeling when you did it? If not, then she can't really make assumptions like that.

Many people thought I was evil, for example, when I did something bad on a complete accident. All they saw was the danger I posed to others, and how I ran away after it happened. But the story behind it was... very different.

[private text]

[callbacks]

well
i guess i didnt
we started to talk about it once but then some other stuff interrupted us and by the time things calmed down like
so much had happened the only way anyone could really cope with it was by pretending everything was normal
or spending three years drunk as as skunk apparently
so it was sort of hard to engage her on the topic while that was going on