[ ...for all the lives and experience behind her, brilith still doesn't know what to do with that. so she takes the information, packs it away, and focuses on something else. ]

Why should you be embarrassed? You lost someone you loved, and you're hurt. That's not something to be embarrassed about - that's human.

[ perhaps she seems heartless now. even brilith knows that awakening brings out some of the worst parts of her, all that anger and resentment from millions and millions of years coming to a boiling point. at her core, though, she has always cared most about the human race and their welfare. she would never hold someone's humanity against them. ]