» "Don't worry, mommy," said Little Red Riding Hood, "I'll be careful."
It was out of character to be flushed with a sudden reserved state of mind. Yet as she looked upon the rebuilding efforts and having been allocated to some cleanup herself, Raiin was stung by the actuality of her being here, among Jedi, among people, places and things totally foreign to her. It wasn't so much as this starkness just sinking in but finally scraping through the walls she had built to shield her from the truth ”“ she was alone, far away from anything she knew.
Instead of coming to grips with it here and now, the walls were strung up again. Bricks, simulating beliefs, telling her that she was fine, that this was going to be fun, that she had been careful, all the while lacking the mortar of truth that would hold that wall from its eventual destruction, again, in the future.
She nodded, apprehensively, toward her newest acquaintance ((P-Nut)). She dropped her backpack, permitting that red cowl to separate from her and an appreciated cool rush of air to lap at her sweat-beaded back. She dropped the cowl's hood, letting her shoulder-length strawberry-blonde hair to sample the coolness as well. She hustled over to P-Nut, suddenly gripped with the prospect of moving this piece of considerable weight anywhere.
”œI'd love to help but I don't think I can force anything of that size anywhere,”