[ Words appear against a dark sky and it feels like a proclamation, the kind that makes him want to look away. But they follow him, with each blink and glance away to a lean against the rusted old tower's bent and twisted metal supports. His temple presses to cold steel, wondering if it's harder or easier for Kaladin to instead listen to his thoughts read out by some machine. ]
Yeah
[ Those words contain every truth in them, don't they? They turn his stomach and he doesn't know if it's excitement or dread that he feels. ]
I thought about that all the time but not bc I'm worried about getting hurt
I knew I had to keep my head bc there's so much on my shoulders. Yours too. People need us. And there's no version of me that's going to go back home and not do everything I can to help my people and take back my kingdom from the pieces of shit that stole it
The more I thought about it the more I knew that. And now I think about it less bc there's nothing that can make me not be that man. I don't think there's anything that would stop you from being the man you are either. You made me see that tbh
1/2
Yeah
[ Those words contain every truth in them, don't they? They turn his stomach and he doesn't know if it's excitement or dread that he feels. ]
I thought about that all the time but not bc I'm worried about getting hurt
I knew I had to keep my head bc there's so much on my shoulders. Yours too. People need us. And there's no version of me that's going to go back home and not do everything I can to help my people and take back my kingdom from the pieces of shit that stole it
The more I thought about it the more I knew that. And now I think about it less bc there's nothing that can make me not be that man. I don't think there's anything that would stop you from being the man you are either. You made me see that tbh