"The kind that require a lot of traveling and talking to people to answer?" Karla paused and then shrugged. She'd never backed down from telling Ender what she'd thought before. "I think you're frightened of putting down roots," she said bluntly. "It took you four years to accept Ben. And I know you look at your friendships from Fandom as kind of a...passing thing. Not something to cling to longer than necessary."
She said that matter-of-factly. She'd had time to think it over and deal with it.
"We could talk about all the whys and wherefores, but I'm betting you know them better than I do. I just think that, in the end, part of you is afraid to see people as more than the occasional surface companion. You feel distant and separate from them, and part of that is just who you are, but I think some of it is a defense mechanism, too. If they don't get close to you, they can't depend on you."
Re: Day One: Daytime [Lake Country]
"The kind that require a lot of traveling and talking to people to answer?" Karla paused and then shrugged. She'd never backed down from telling Ender what she'd thought before. "I think you're frightened of putting down roots," she said bluntly. "It took you four years to accept Ben. And I know you look at your friendships from Fandom as kind of a...passing thing. Not something to cling to longer than necessary."
She said that matter-of-factly. She'd had time to think it over and deal with it.
"We could talk about all the whys and wherefores, but I'm betting you know them better than I do. I just think that, in the end, part of you is afraid to see people as more than the occasional surface companion. You feel distant and separate from them, and part of that is just who you are, but I think some of it is a defense mechanism, too. If they don't get close to you, they can't depend on you."