"Sometimes, it doesn't take another person to mend a broken heart, it takes acceptance that things don't always go the way they were planned and just move on with life." — Shaniah Blue
As Irene looked around at her party members, she had mixed feelings. Although she was nearly ten years older than them all, she did not seem like the most mature person in the group.
When she first joined the group, she thought Lazarus was simply a calm and collected man and that she had more experience than Holly. Still, as the other girls joined, she realized that she was too similar to people significantly younger.
While the younger people were only a few years away from being too young even to play the game, it was uncertain if she could even beat everyone other than Lazarus in a duel; it made her feel truly old.
