Alema pulled back from the hug trying to convince the woman, wondering how anyone could possibly do so and thinking it would just be easier to pull the memories of their friendship from her mind foreve...
Her lekku curled in a way that another Twi'lek would instantly see as alarm, distress.
"There's no way. No miracle. My mind is broken Cathy. It was broken when I fell into those pits, the only miracle if there is one is that I had this time. I'm having to think before I speak, block out the nest as much as I can because if I don't...If I let them in..."
She'd have to let them in eventually, the strain on her was already causing pain, and her arm was starting to ache again, old wounds old pain.
"I told you before how I lost my mind, how anger and hate and rage twisted me into the Night Herald. Thats who I'll become again and I'm sorry, but I can't prevent it, and nor can you"