@mahdinate, asked: ā Sometimes itās easier to figure out someone elseās secret than it is to deal with your own. ā
The room is buzzing and loud, not from voices nor footsteps but from the immensity of itself, the shouting of its walls stating their presence in no uncertain terms. They loom large and overbearing, bending themselves overhead, converging to a central point at the ceiling which Nancy viewed at once with a deference and a distaste; opulence begat suffering in a place such as this. The line of her lips tightened as she brought her gaze back down, meeting that of her companion, if one could call the nature of the tenuous ground the two of them stood upon as such, that of Alia. She could not stifle the sensation that making this eye contact, looking upon her, it felt to be unnatural. Verging on a burn, a gouging of the eyes; she wondered if it would be a blasphemy, and instinctually she looked away, now down towards the ground as her feet carried her across the room alongside her Holiness.
" I guess I'd have to agree, " she says, words paired with a simple and small smile. An admittance which begged the question: if they each had their secrets, if they each cared not to uncover their own, but rather determine that of the other's ... this strange dynamic would turn violent, in time. And would it be a race to reach that violent end first? " But that's not my own, um, that's not where my interest lay. Or at least, I don't think of it as a āāĀ a strict avoidance of anything. It's more a curiosity. " Another smile, this time flashing as she returns her gaze, just briefly, fleetingly, to Alia. " And investment. In truth above all. " Even God. " Thats what I mean to find, when it comes down to 'uncovering' secrets. "