Well, he didn't seem to be panicking — that was something.
"Mostly, they're distinct: I'm either myself or —also myself, but the Huntress instead of Anna." A pause, and her lips twisted wryly, "...You see what I mean by 'complicated.'" The half-smile was more performance of humor and ease than anything; in reality, the subject was painful and confusing, and she could feel the tension that remained around her eyes, despite her effort to keep her expression mild.
"Fortunately, being —her doesn't happen often; mostly there's just... her self-assurance, her brutality, sometimes sort of hovering at the back of my mind. But I can't fully make myself think of either personality as not 'me" — not because I can't tell the difference, but because what 'me' means is...a matter of perspective, I guess."
She made herself exhale a long breath — she'd been holding it without meaning to; old habits died hard — and added, "I've only been like this for about a month. It's...a lot to deal with, and it didn't exactly make me very popular among the rest of the Kindred: they'd had more than enough to do with the Fae." And that didn't even begin to get started on what the whole thing had done to her relationship with Leander.
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Well, he didn't seem to be panicking — that was something.
"Mostly, they're distinct: I'm either myself or —also myself, but the Huntress instead of Anna." A pause, and her lips twisted wryly, "...You see what I mean by 'complicated.'" The half-smile was more performance of humor and ease than anything; in reality, the subject was painful and confusing, and she could feel the tension that remained around her eyes, despite her effort to keep her expression mild.
"Fortunately, being —her doesn't happen often; mostly there's just... her self-assurance, her brutality, sometimes sort of hovering at the back of my mind. But I can't fully make myself think of either personality as not 'me" — not because I can't tell the difference, but because what 'me' means is...a matter of perspective, I guess."
She made herself exhale a long breath — she'd been holding it without meaning to; old habits died hard — and added, "I've only been like this for about a month. It's...a lot to deal with, and it didn't exactly make me very popular among the rest of the Kindred: they'd had more than enough to do with the Fae." And that didn't even begin to get started on what the whole thing had done to her relationship with Leander.