this won't change my opinion of you

When Avantika looked back, she noticed that Audra's eyes were welling up with tears as she spoke about how she thought that she should be able to fix this. She moved a little closer, brushing her body up against hers gently in an attempt to comfort her. She didn't really know what to do, so she kept quiet, hoping that she could just y'know, telepathically help Audra without having to come up with the words herself. "No matter how many times I take these crystals from my skin, they come back. The pain is too much. I feel so lost." It scared her to say her true feelings, but she had to. Audra had opened up to her, and anyway, she didn't have anything else to say. "I hate this," she growled softly. "I hate not knowing what's going on." She wasn't the best at showing empathy, but she did feel it and she was trying her best.

She wanted that firefly guy to come back now. She wanted to beat him up, even if he was just a bunch of bugs in a cloak. She didn't know if he had caused this mess, but she didn't have anything else to blame.

"I wonder if anyone has found a way to get rid of it," Audra said. "I don't know." Why was that all she was saying nowadays? 'I don't know, I don't know'. It made her feel sick to be so powerless.

"Speech"