If it becomes too overwhelming, I know how to ask for help. But...it is much easier to know if the one facing consequences is myself, even if I am fortunate to have concerned comrades by my side.
[It's something she's quick to encourage others and therefore very aware of, but she does things often on her own, especially when she's the only one who can.]
... Aren't you one to talk, though? You have your fellow researchers, but I find most of you all quite independent. Hoe much have you let someone carry your sorrows?
[They get along and work to support one another, and Cantarella would never suggest otherwise...but she's seen how quickly and easily each one detaches into their own little worlds and responsibilities, often to the point of exhaustion.]
Only one, hm? They must be extraordinary beyond measure.
[Having met people like the Rover and like Cartethyia, she can understand that. There are some people to whom some boundaries seem neither to apply nor to matter.
But it’s a far cry from the many comrades Y’shtola just mentioned as sharing her burdens.]
And do you share your troubles with the two of them, putting those struggles into words?
[The two men have been through a lot. It’s impossible not to see the pain that’s reached them here, especially after today. Cantarella suspects that this is one case where Y’shtola’s outspoken nature doesn’t manifest any words for her at all.]
[ She smiles, soft. The Warrior of Light is a special person indeed. That he smiles and nods more often than anything else makes it easy to open up to him.
But on the matter of her other allies… ]
I do. I owe them as much, given all that we have faced together. Though it… is difficult, telling them the truth. I had to tell them of our star, and how it has been plagued by infection.
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[It's something she's quick to encourage others and therefore very aware of, but she does things often on her own, especially when she's the only one who can.]
... Aren't you one to talk, though? You have your fellow researchers, but I find most of you all quite independent. Hoe much have you let someone carry your sorrows?
[They get along and work to support one another, and Cantarella would never suggest otherwise...but she's seen how quickly and easily each one detaches into their own little worlds and responsibilities, often to the point of exhaustion.]
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[ So, Cantarella is right about that. They each tend to go off on their own, for better or worse. ]
...Urianger and Thancred know of my burdens as well.
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[Having met people like the Rover and like Cartethyia, she can understand that. There are some people to whom some boundaries seem neither to apply nor to matter.
But it’s a far cry from the many comrades Y’shtola just mentioned as sharing her burdens.]
And do you share your troubles with the two of them, putting those struggles into words?
[The two men have been through a lot. It’s impossible not to see the pain that’s reached them here, especially after today. Cantarella suspects that this is one case where Y’shtola’s outspoken nature doesn’t manifest any words for her at all.]
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But on the matter of her other allies… ]
I do. I owe them as much, given all that we have faced together. Though it… is difficult, telling them the truth. I had to tell them of our star, and how it has been plagued by infection.
A result of my own wish.
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[Cantarella has to breathe a sigh of relief for that one. Y'shtola has not become as solitary in her work as Cantarella feared might have happened.]
You and Victor are the same...You carry too much of this weight for yourselves. How can you take the blame for a dream?
[Cantarella has been quite clear on her opinions about wishes and the granting of them, all by themselves...but what is a wish but hope?]
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[ Ironic, isn’t it? She invited something terrible into her world by wishing away the end of it. ]
My desire for our champion to see things through was so great that it was heard. I suppose I should be glad that it was my desire and not the other’s.