Talk:Try (Songfic)/@comment-5342796-20160327223041



Oh God, this story is already making me so emotional and you're like halfway through? My heart aches for Aleya; I don't know what she's done, though some ideas are forming in my head based on the flashbacks (though I doubt you've actually revealed enough for me to guess accurately, so I'll wait and enjoy the suspense), but I already can clearly see that she just wants to escape herself--the guilt and regret she carries with. She wants to find a place to belong, and acclimatizing to a Clan lifestyle is hard enough as it is, since the warrior code is kind of something that needs to be fully integrated into your heart; it must be twice as hard for her, because she can't embrace a new life until she lets go of her past.

I think she really knows that, but she's trying to pretend it isn't so, because facing her past is too painful. Gah, I really want to know what happened.

This song is so beautiful, and you convey its message with paradoxical explicitness and subtlety.

Sootshadow is adorable. I love how helpful and sincere he is, and I sense that he could be a great comfort to Aleya if she let him; already she's reaching out to him, the only cat to show her kindness in a while, but can she learn to trust him?

I'm not sure how to feel about Ivan yet, but I see how much Aleya loved him... does she still love him? What happened to him, and between them? Again, theories abound, but I shall wait and see.

AWESOME JOB!

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