Disclaimer: I don't own anything in Pendragon or any plot lines in them since they are, after all owned by D.J MacHale.
I also don't own this song, which is called "Skin Deep" by the group Zoegirl.
After the fight for Halla was over, Loor wondered how her life would be… would they win? Would they lose? If they lost then surely the lives of the Travelers would be nothing like Loor wanted them to be.
Loor acted tough, but on the inside there were a couple things that she truly and deeply cared about…
Sometimes I feel
lost
In a sea of insecurity
That rages inside of me
So
terribly caught
And the waves of self-rejection
Make me
question my ability
After her mother,
Osa, and the fight for Halla, Bobby Pendragon was the one thing that
she deeply cared about. She wanted to tell him how she felt, and be
able to just be with him. But being a traveler had complicated all
that… but Loor wasn't mad that she was a Traveler. Without being
one, she never would have met Pendragon. The first time she saw him
she had thought that he was just a weakling… nothing to fear,
nothing to admire. But as she began to know him she saw that there
were many admiral things about Bobby that Loor herself would never
have. He had no problem telling the way he felt about things. He
didn't feel the need to act tough all of the time. He was a great
friend to Loor. He was so very brave, even though he didn't think
so. He was unsure about himself, but he always did the right things
in difficult situations.
If only Loor could have told him this…
But there's a fire that always burns
And there's a voice inside
And all it wants is to be heard
'Cause beyond skin deep
There's so much more to see
My
hopes, my dreams designed with destiny
When she had first met Bobby the last thing she ever though that would be between them was love. It was the last thing that she would have ever guessed. But it had happened. After Osa had died a terrible death, Loor hadn't known what to do. At first she had looked to Uncle Press for a mentor, a guardian. But she had found that as smart, and as strong as Uncle Press was, he wasn't much of a father like figure. He was more like a cool friend.
So she clung to Bobby for the support that she needed.
And he had given to her more than she felt she could ever have given to him.
It's so hard to change
When we
are captive to ourselves
Always thirsty for something else
And when Loor felt like she had to cry herself to sleep… when she thought of Osa, and Press, and Bokka, and her father and mother that she had never even met… she thought of Bobby. And she felt safer then she had in a long time. She felt like safe arms were being wrapped around her, arms that would never leave her… arms that would never forsake her…
In the sea of confusion that Loor lived Bobby was her constant reminder that everything would be okay… no matter how much things changed…
So take the fire and let it burn
Unleash the voice inside
'Cause everyone needs to be heard
Beyond skin deep
There's so much more to see
Our hopes,
our dreams designed with destiny
'Cause we are more, we are more
than skin deep
So much more