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[aeris_reborn]

Elle felt her body begin to tremble again, by now it had become almost like second nature. It was with a stinging burn that she felt her eyes begin to swell with tears and all the guilt for her suriving returned 10 fold upon her already weary form. Tears began to stream lightly down her cheeks, sliding to her chin and trailing down her neck

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[flare_it_up]

"War happens, Elle.. people die. Don't blame yourself for something you could have never prevented. How do you think I feel, being a GF for a cause that I was never sure of to begin with? To try and prevent a war that I knew I couldn't do anything about anyhow. We can only do the best we are capable of, even though we know it will never be enough. All we can do is just take things in stride, one day at a time."

[aeris_reborn]

Anger swelled in her heart again, that little familiar lump that accompanies in the throat as she spun around, "And how do you know that I couldn't have prevented it?" Her fists were now clenched firmly at her sides, her hair becoming tousled from the spin upon her back heels to face him.

[flare_it_up]

I looked at her and simply said, "Could you?"
Taking her hands in my own, I said, "Elle, you are only one person. Sorceress or not, you know there was nothing you could have done to prevented a war. Edea was right in the thick of it and there was nothing she could have done, either. Stop doubting yourself.."

[aeris_reborn]

"I have nothing left but that doubt," she whispered back, her hand slightly tense upon being taken. "I could've. Somehow. Forseen some of the things. I know that deep inside there was something I could've been able to do."