"The bare minimum should disgust you", It does. It does disgust me-how love-deprived I am to put basic decency on a pedestal. But someone who's starving doesn't know what's edible and what's poison. A starving person will take anything. They'll mistake breadcrumbs for a banquet, a passing glance for affection, and silence for peace. Because when you've never known real love, even cruelty wrapped in attention feels like safety. And it's humiliating, how deep the hunger goes, how easily it fools you into gratitude for scraps.
but like instead of love, it's the things cesare provided her (food, house, clothes, etc) which is why i completely understood why she doesn't hate cesare at all.
"The bare minimum should disgust you", It does. It does disgust me-how love-deprived I am to put basic decency on a pedestal. But someone who's starving doesn't know what's edible and what's poison. A starving person will take anything. They'll mistake breadcrumbs for a banquet, a passing glance for affection, and silence for peace. Because when you've never known real love, even cruelty wrapped in attention feels like safety. And it's humiliating, how deep the hunger goes, how easily it fools you into gratitude for scraps.
but like instead of love, it's the things cesare provided her (food, house, clothes, etc) which is why i completely understood why she doesn't hate cesare at all.