[ Re-L is a bit like a moth to flame with danger - likes to flirt with the edge of what she's 'allowed' just because she's curious. Of course, it was exactly that which had landed her in a heap of trouble in her former home of Romdeau Dome, but there wasn't a bit of it that she could change now. And perhaps wouldn't, even if she had the chance to. After all, without knowing what she knew now, she'd end up right back where she started, which was restless and dissatisfied, a caged bird in a restrictive society and a high ivory tower.

Sure, it beat at her ego every once in a while when she'd come to realize all that she'd been brow-beaten with from a young age was a very elaborate scheme to keep people, and very much herself, in line. But.. well.. when your own grandfather tries to have you killed it puts a lot in to perspective. ]

My doctor would tell you that he made me too curious, now, I believe. Though I could argue that he should've known better than to let me go outside if he wanted to keep me in, too. [ Daedalus had always been keen on keeping her happy, trying to make her content - showing her a whole other world to explore was perhaps the worst option to take. ]

What's harder is reminding myself not to get too close to the sun, in the figurative sense.