Open A Lighthouse Away From Sea

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"Alright, you go on first. Takes me a bit of time to figure out what I wanna spill, cause I'm open enough that I don't really have... secrets."

Adelaida leaned over the railing, enough that a small breeze could tip her over. It was a beautiful view, and for a moment, she heard that familiar beckoning again, telling her that it would be much less tiring if she just let go.

"'sides, for someone who needs to burn things every day and has to use a hob cause the normal gas range keeps complaining to her, my 'secrets' are pretty damn mundane."
 
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Bel had not expected the girl to tell her to go first, that they had very few secrets. It sounded like an unfair trade, and Bel wasn't quite sure she wanted to exchange secrets with somebody who had so little to trade.

"Why bother then?" she asked curiously. "You will walk away knowing something big about me and I will walk away knowing something trivial about you like you don't like chocolate or that you sleep with a teddy bear," she remarked.

"Besides, you will know who I am eventually," the head of the cheerleaders said. Most people knew Bel or of her at least.
 
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"Alright, you go on first. Takes me a bit of time to figure out what I wanna spill, cause I'm open enough that I don't really have... secrets."

Adelaida leaned over the railing, enough that a small breeze could tip her over. It was a beautiful view, and for a moment, she heard that familiar beckoning again, telling her that it would be much less tiring if she just let go.

"'sides, for someone who needs to burn things every day and has to use a hob cause the normal gas range keeps complaining to her, my 'secrets' are pretty damn mundane."
 
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Bel had not expected the girl to tell her to go first, that they had very few secrets. It sounded like an unfair trade, and Bel wasn't quite sure she wanted to exchange secrets with somebody who had so little to trade.

"Why bother then?" she asked curiously. "You will walk away knowing something big about me and I will walk away knowing something trivial about you like you don't like chocolate or that you sleep with a teddy bear," she remarked.

"Besides, you will know who I am eventually," the head of the cheerleaders said. Most people knew Bel or of her at least.
 
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"Why, indeed, I wonder. Failure of when you come up with something off the cuff like that... okay, you want something big, I get it."

Adelaida had secrets mainly by virtue of no one asking. She was perfectly comfortable sharing everything, and often wondered what was wrong with her, that she kept no secrets.

"Most of my big quote secrets are various things burning. Eggs for breakfast, toast, my home, my frying pan..."

She trailed off. Nothing among those held any weight for her, and the weightlessness was...

Not a good feeling.
 
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Bel hugged her knees to her chest and listened quietly and with expectation to the stranger as she revealed her "biggest" secrets. Part of Bel hoped that the girl would share something huge and earth-shattering or dark, something that would require Bel to swear that she'd never tell a soul simply so she could share her own dark secrets.

However, as the young woman finished sharing, Bel realised, both relieved and disappointed that this would not be the case, and while she could tell that the shared secret held some weight, she still felt it was small compared to Bel's own secrets.

"That's not too overly terrible, I guess, perhaps just a bit of a bother and annoyance," Bel said with a tiny but understanding smile.

"My own secrets are somewhat harder to deal with at times," she confessed, deciding to share something "small". "Even the smaller ones seem huge sometimes," she told the stranger.

"Not many people know this, but I can tell what is in a person's heart just by looking at them," Bel said. "Beltane gave me the ability along with a thousand years of memories and some days dealing with all of that is tiring," she told the girl with a sigh.
 
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That was certainly an interesting revelation. Not just the ability to see into others, but the fact that her house burning was a trivial matter. While she hadn't lost any sleep over it in years, she hadn't quite slept well either.

"You may be the first person I've met to call my little incident of arson and my self-made orphan status a small, trivial thing. I appreciate that."

Adelaida invited her guest to lie down on the cold stone as she did now, splayed out. Tiredness was typically something you could do little about other than rest.

"I can't say I know what it's like to be tired from a thousand years of thinking, after all, I've only been around twenty-something. But if you've been around that long, do you think it's strange that I don't feel anything when I think back to that day? I can't tell, honestly. I've been told I should be sad, or guilty, but never 'that's not too terrible.'"
 
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Bel raised an eyebrow at this. "You do know that you never really shared that rather important detail," she pointed out when the girl elaborated on her predicament. "Just naming off objects does not tell me anything, except that you have an infinity for setting things on fire or have a power you can't control," she explained.

Taking her place on the hard ground, beside the young woman she had just met, Bel stared up at the night sky.

"I am only 18 actually and I was given the memories of the goddess I embody when I was seven," she confessed in a low voice, not finding it necessary to talk at a normal volume anymore.

"And to answer your question, no. No, I don't think it's weird at all," she told her quietly. "My twin and I were taken away from our family when we were six, and looking back to that moment, I only remember my brother crying as the druids took us away," she said with a tiny and very resigned sigh.

*Everyone handles grief and loss differently. I think there is no right way to feel when something like that happens."
 
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It was strange how Adelaida could feel the most emotion when it was nothing to do with her. She felt a severe pang of pain when her unknown companion said they were taken away.

"That's terrible! No one should have to go through that. And now you're carrying all of these memories that tire you out. Sounds like you've been through hell and back," Adelaida said, sitting up.

She thought of how there were different ways to process grief, and different reactions to loss and tragedy. She had no idea if she even processed it. Even on the day, and the days that followed, it all seemed trivial to her. Even after her sister took her in, and sent her to this island to learn how to prevent such incidents in the future.

"I won't make any assumptions of how well you handled it or not. But given that you're whispering... there's a bit more weight to this than you're letting on... I think."
 
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Bel almost laughed when the young woman mentioned how heavy her burdens seemed. If she only knew, Bel thought tiredly. Although, if given a chance to relive her life, she also doubted she would change too many things.

"There is but I can handle it," she confessed. Then, looking to the side. "How about you? You say that you don't feel anything about what happened, and yet here you are, tired and restless?
 
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