Anna smiled a little and shook her head.<span style="color: #4da6ff">"i w-wasn't t-talking about s-skills, i w-was t-talking about relearning one of th-the m-most important th-things about b-being a person... h-how to want things, h-how to have d-desires of m-my own... a d-drive t-to live. all of w-which i h-had to g-get rid of b-because those th-things upset m-my husband and m-made him b-beat me more."</span><br/><br/>Relene raised one brow at him but nodded. "that sounds good, that way i can eat when my stomach settles down as much as my temper has."<br/><br/><span style="color: #00b300">"that is his best quality, his desire for self improvement. and while he reacts to criticism with a joke or even feigned offense if you pay attention you can watch him working on the issues that were brought to his attention. its almost cute, he gets all sarcastic at you and then when he thinks no one is looking he takes it to heart and makes a real effort to improve on the criticized area and pretends nothing happened even when he makes huge changes. i highly doubt you understood even a fraction of your true power and let them suffer, no one can be blamed for a lack of education if it was never offered to them. i know for a fact that there are people i could have saved in my early life if i knew then what i know now, you can't let that eat at you."</span>he smiled and shook his head.<span style="color: #00b300">"that is the last thing you should worry about, you need time to settle in and i think life will present you with something to do long before you really need to worry about finding it."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>