Fire Keeper

One of my colleague in the office keeps talking bad about another colleague. Since the backstabbed colleague is my SV, the backstabbing colleague is now talking in whispers just to be careful that I won't hear anything anymore. But, I don't always tell other people what I hear or see, let alone fuel the fire. I pity my SV because she works so hard and people talk bad behind her and I'm not sure if she ever knows about it. 

It's disturbing to be the keeper of the fire. In the meeting they act friendly and talk like they're FF, but when my SV is not around or too busy in her own world, she's a victim of a backstabber. Then I realised, I'm still a clean painting on a white canvas crafted by my continuous 16 years of education. All these while, I was safe inside my cage, never really took a break long enough to experience the dirty world out there.

I want to go back inside my cage.