it's hard to believe that i'll be fine one day

Plants. She would keep looking for plants, and she wouldn't stop looking until she found them. If she was going to be a reclusive swamp witch, there was something she had to get right. Finding plants. Halo should be good at this, for fuck's sake! She should be good at finding herbs. She was a healer after all-- or was she a fraud at that too. Had she just tricked everyone into believing that she could help people? Had she tricked everyone into believing that she was good, and decent, and overall at least okay? Maybe she was rotten. Maybe she was rotten to the core. Maybe she was the worst, the absolute worst, and she would just... always be the worst.

Sometimes, the grey made Halo dramatic. It was the grey that left her posture rather low, eyes trained on the ground itself instead of the world around her. The tenderhearted girl had been sucked into a spider's web, and it wouldn't want to let her go. The thoughts... they weren't good ones. Halo was usually able to chase most of the poor feelings away, and co-exist with the grey itself, but some days were harder than others. Today was one of those days. Heck, she'd tricked the whole of the Armada, Warlord included, into believing that she was good and that she was helpful. Aris saw through her, though. Aris knew that Halo was a fraud. It was only a matter of time before the others figured it out too.

None of it was true, of course, but there was no talking Halo into that.

A voice came from not far off. It was shaded with some sort of accent, one that Halo couldn't place. For a moment, she froze and considered running. By no means was she fit to be seen in this state... by no means at all. She was a healer. She was supposed to fix others when they felt like this. Like this. Halo didn't even know what this was. It takes a moment to process the girl's words. A girl. Halo takes her in-- a yearling. A softness creeps into her gaze, and she offers a small smile. "Oh, sorry," why is she apologizing? At this point, it's habit. "I haven't been to this area before, it seems a bit harder to find herbs here than I anticipated." It was a lie, but not the worst one Halo could have told. She makes it seem as natural as possible. There was plenty weighing on her mind, but she couldn't share it. Not with a stranger. Halo fixed other people's problems-- she didn't have problems of her own.

"What brings you out here?" It was a bit of a strange sight, a pretty young lady amidst the murk and the muck. Maybe she was looking for something... maybe Halo could help. It would help take her mind off of things, at least.

"Halo"