Judging by the choice of words, I was quite sure that Merari knew the answer to her own question. I obliged her with an answer, nevertheless. “I love her more than my own life,” I confessed. “She…Valene,” I chuckled. “Sometimes, I…I think I depended on her more than my own beta and delta,” I admitted. “More than an amazing person, characteristically speaking, she was an extraordinary human, Merari. I cannot imagine how amazing she is now.” There was a hint of a smile teasing her lips, but it wasn't reaching. I hadn't earned my way to reaching. Yet. "She definitely is rough around the edges right now," she said. "The girl's bitter, and rightly so," her once distant stare, regarded me. "She's not the same Valene that you once knew, Alas."
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