diff --git a/writing/post-self/idumea/003.md b/writing/post-self/idumea/003.md index 6bbe9d43..6b6d6cc0 100644 --- a/writing/post-self/idumea/003.md +++ b/writing/post-self/idumea/003.md @@ -38,4 +38,6 @@ Today was therapy, and her joy was gone. There was no relief within her that. There were no thoughts of, ah, today is therapy! Today she would get to talk to Ever Dream! Today she would get to explore this idea of a joy meted out slowly until it was nothing. -In fact, I would say that there was perhaps even a sort of protectiveness. I think that she felt some sort of ownership of this concept. I think that she felt like this ending of joy was hers and hers alone. Something to keep to herself until perhaps, some day, she might share it and become still at last, or perhaps even beyond then. +In fact, I would say that there was perhaps even a sort of protectiveness. I think that she felt some sort of ownership of this concept. I think that she felt like this ending of joy was hers and hers alone. Something to keep to herself until perhaps, some day, she might share it and become still at last, or perhaps even beyond then. It was hers to set before herself and admire or loathe. It was hers to wrap up in pretty paper or hide away in the back of a drawer. I think she may have felt jealousy. + +And so it was that The Woman, today a human,