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[chaos_drifter]

“Yes. I think counseling and wardening are more about having what someone else needs than trying to help everyone.”

[abrightboy]

“I guess so. …When I came here, I wanted to help everyone. But. Maybe that’s what I had to learn.”

[chaos_drifter]

“Wanting to help everyone is a good desire to have.” They know they lack that. They may be able to think of wardening as something more than a purpose, but doing so is not their first idea.

[abrightboy]

"Until the failure starts to break you," Malcolm points out.

[chaos_drifter]

Would something like that break them? They think it could, the same way losing their murders had. “I see.”

[abrightboy]

"I found it easier to cope when I narrowed the scope of my goals," Malcolm tells them.

[chaos_drifter]

“What did you decide to use as your goal, other than helping everyone?” they ask.

[abrightboy]

"Helping people who ask for my help," Malcolm tells them.

[chaos_drifter]

“That makes sense. I might not have asked for the help that I needed, but we got there eventually.”