09-02-2019, 03:51 PM
the opposite of love's indifference
She was born restless.
But it is more than that, too.
She is insatiable.
Hungry in some bone-deep way that cannot be helped except by straying further and further from their mother’s side. And, inevitably, she drags Kade and all of her reluctance along with her. Because their heartbeats are the same and sometimes she could swear she knows what Kade is thinking, know what she’ll say before she says it.
Her sister inherited all of their mother’s kindness, there had been none left for Karina. She does not soften when Kade voices her uncertainty, only rolls her eyes, shifts those deep black wings. Strange that someone with so much power over light should be so dark. “It’ll be fine,” she says, though the tone is lacking in comfort. It is edged in agitation instead, barbed by her vicious want for her sister to trust her without question for once. “Everyone will love you,” she adds and then shrugs. It’s unclear whether she actually believes it or not.
She is prepared to thrust herself into the center of the activity, prepared to drag Kade along with her, when the flowers erupt and bloom around them. Perhaps foolishly, she thinks it must be some kind of magic borne by the fairies that skitter through the canopy overhead. But she catches sight of him then and her expression – irritated – collapses around the soft edges of delight.
He is half-shrouded in shadow and she takes a step toward him, concentrating hard on creating a large orb of light that she casts around him. All of that glitter catches the light and she gasps softly, grinning. “Did you do this?” she asks then, shifting her focus to the flowers so that the orb of light disappears and plunges all of them back into their half-darkness.
winged daughter of jarris and plumeria
forever twin of their forever daughter kade