[private] Seas would rise when i gave the word; Graeme

[Titus]

titus

one day it's here and then it's gone,
how are you still holding on?

There is simplicity in the way she answers him. The answer had been so obvious. Of course, they would fly! But it was not the type of flying he had ever had in mind. The type of flying he had first done when he and Venus had first grown the strength and master their abilities somewhat. The flying then had been free and wild, just as the flying they do now is free and wild.

It’s exhilarating.

The games they play. The rush and adrenaline it gives him. The laughter comes out of his lips and echoes into the wind across the sky.

The simplicity of these activities makes him forget it all. The worries he had are tossed into the wind, thrown into the heavens as she calls out to him to climb higher into the sky. Titus follows after Graeme without a second thought. He didn’t need to think in these moments, not when all he needed to do was fly and whatever else came from it.

He follows her into the highest part of the sky, but she remains higher above him (as if she does this all the time). The part where he can feel the oxygen at it limits. He breathes in what air there is left up here. It makes him feel light-headed, but he is high on the rush it gives him. The way he dances on the edge of life and death—the way he shifts and hunts for the thrill.

Graeme then dives down suddenly. Titus gasps out loudly, fear rushes through him. He dives down after her, but suddenly her wings open wide and her laugh echoes and rushes on the wings of the wind into his ears. Eventually, the black winged mare lands. All the way down she grins, from ear to ear it seems.

Titus swoops down at a quick speed and lands safely and perfectly near her. Her eyes dance with joy all the while his face is filled with astonishment. “WELL,” he says sharply and loudly, “That was quite something!” It almost feels like he could do it all over again.

“You had me scared there for a second. Are you always that foolish?” He jesters and laughs without a care in the world in these moments. It seemed whatever trick Graeme had done had made him push away his glum thoughts and mood back into the darkness.

son of rome and porcia
male, classic champagne appaloosa
ocelot-shifting, wings, immortality

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@[Graeme]