#i'm just... still here...

i never stop thinking about sam nightingale, who's sharp and always on the defensive, and zelda donovan, who's soft spoken and always trying to make herself small, and how they each see something to admire in the other. how zelda does jump to the defense of other people. how sam would never admit that sometimes she wants to be protected, but zelda will do it unasked and she'll be a one-person army doing it. how protective sam is over zelda's right to be quiet when she wants to be. how their temperaments match, because while sam's edges can hurt zelda, there's nothing zelda understands better than an outburst you have only so much control over...