Ea
09-08-2016, 02:21 PM
now you're staring at a queen.
How easily they had found each other: fate.
Her life is a series of befores and afters -- before and after Scorch’s death; Ramiel; becoming a queen, a mother; the destruction. Before, she never believed in fate. She was in charge of her own future, every step she took along the way mattered.
But now?
She can’t help but wonder if she is entirely at the will of Beqanna or Carnage or some other higher power, if everything she does is predetermined.
They were all meant, from the very beginning, to fall and rebuild.
“Yes,” she says, to all of them -- to Ashley and Phaedrus, Vida and Tiphon, to herself. “Vida, it’s wonderful to have you,” she says quietly, politely, and then she hears him. Sabrael. She moves to him, even though he is so close to her already, and reaches out, placing her nose gently on his neck. Ea wants to embrace him, to hold him against her body like she did when he was just barely a weanling, but already he seems much older than before.
“Yes,” she continues, “we will find a new home. Vida, Sabrael, Adalyn --” she directs her attention to the children and the injured, “you stay nearby, somewhere safe. I will find you again when it’s time to go home.”
She takes another long look at Sabrael, then turns towards the Mountain. And her fate.
Her life is a series of befores and afters -- before and after Scorch’s death; Ramiel; becoming a queen, a mother; the destruction. Before, she never believed in fate. She was in charge of her own future, every step she took along the way mattered.
But now?
She can’t help but wonder if she is entirely at the will of Beqanna or Carnage or some other higher power, if everything she does is predetermined.
They were all meant, from the very beginning, to fall and rebuild.
“Yes,” she says, to all of them -- to Ashley and Phaedrus, Vida and Tiphon, to herself. “Vida, it’s wonderful to have you,” she says quietly, politely, and then she hears him. Sabrael. She moves to him, even though he is so close to her already, and reaches out, placing her nose gently on his neck. Ea wants to embrace him, to hold him against her body like she did when he was just barely a weanling, but already he seems much older than before.
“Yes,” she continues, “we will find a new home. Vida, Sabrael, Adalyn --” she directs her attention to the children and the injured, “you stay nearby, somewhere safe. I will find you again when it’s time to go home.”
She takes another long look at Sabrael, then turns towards the Mountain. And her fate.
[so I’m just wrapping up this thread to get the timelines all together -- Ea, Ashley, Phaedrus, and Tiphon all went up to the Mountain to petition for a land, were told to be patient and wait, and have now been granted a land on the Island! Just so y’all are all caught up. Please feel free to start posting there, I’ll get an “all” post up soon!]