the carpet crawlers heed their callers

She doesn't have wishes, necessarily. Doesn't stick in for all that crap yearning, with just anyone - not like, say, Zael.

It's easy to get into a rough situation with a rough person who's actually not, on the inside, and watch it all fade away just as quick. She's done it dozens of times before, each bleeding horribly, in a blaze, into the last.

She's never gotten close enough to the opposite sort: a silky-sweet princess who slaps her ugly bastard uncle on the way out the door to figurin' out who she really is.

Maybe it's time for a change.