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"...So I have to wait for rebound land to end, but it might be okay. It might be doable. I'm trying not to put too much energy and hope into that. If it happens, great. If not, not a big deal."

"Oh."

"Tell me your opinion? I don't want your approval, but..."

"It's... complicated."

"When hasn't it been?"

"Yeah...."

"Uh-huh."

Ariel was a fucking badass. She rescued someone she loved totally, and then he just... left. Oh, he had to. He was injured. She gave up everything to go after him. She doesn't.... she doesn't have anyone waiting for her promises. In the original, Ariel sells her voice to gain a soul (mermaid's don't have them in that version), but the Prince betrays her. He marries a beautiful (not a witch in original version) young woman. She has the option to kill the one she loves and go home, but she doesn't. She kills herself instead; and God takes pity on her and grants her a soul.

I don't know about God, but I feel like she left her soul with the Prince. The prince who she comforted and watched and guarded for twenty years, that prince. The Prince who left her for the one he really loved.

I don't know how anybody could live with that pain. Anybody.

I'm just a nineteen year old girl, but I don't often act it. I want to right now. I want to curl up in a ball next to the emo poetry in this library and cry. But I won't. That's the wrong way to handle these situations.

Instead....

What would I give to live where you are?
What would I pay to stay here beside you?
What would do to see you, smiling at me?
Where we would we walk?
Where would we run,
if we could stay all day in the sun?

Just you and me
and I could be
Part of your world!

I don't know when.
I don't know how.
But I know something's starting right now!
Watch and you'll see
someday I'll be 
part of your world!


I am not Ariel, Katie. That's my opinion. I wouldn't kill you, either...