[open] The Sweet Sting || Starsin ||

[Starsin]

and let me crawl inside your veins. I'll build a wall, give you a ball and chain.

Something seems to change when she does not go for his heart. The air around them shifts, seems to constrict, a darkening, and a tightening. It sets her senses on edge, makes her keep a finger on the trigger of her shattering. She had not killed him when he offered, but that did not mean her mercy was absolute. She did not understand the full scope of his curse and would not pretend to, and that was the only thing that caused her to hesitate.

He spits his vitriol at her, and she thinks she possibly regrets not killing him.

Funny, how she typically regrets her kindness.

He disappears into the canopy above, and her ears pin into the locks of her mane, eyes narrowing. “Why are you running, Wolf-lame?” She all but snarls as she stalks him from below, her eyes following the sound of rustling wings and disturbed limbs. Her attention focuses on the limb he had just landed on, and she shatters it. She continues, destroying each one in rapid succession, ignoring the smaller debris that falls and artfully dodging the larger pieces.

She is aiming for him, but any that knew Starsin would know how rarely she missed her target. And yet time after time, she keeps herself a heartbeat behind Wolfbane; even on the few occasions she catches him in the crosshairs of her stare.

She spares him, but it’s not entirely out of kindness anymore.

“You and I both know if anyone deserves to kill you, it’s Lepis,” she says into the darkness above. “I will not rob her of that.”

starsin

it’s not like me to be so mean. you’re all I wanted.
( just let me hold you Like a hostage. )

@[Wolfbane]