my heart is darker than these oceans -- ceara

[Warrick]

like the sun swallowed up by the earth

The Overseer lifts his head from the lazy way he had been straightening his feathers, his deep blue eyes flickering upwards to meet the lovely and slender form of Ceara - he smiles at first, genuinely happy to see the ebony and crimson lady, but as she approaches, his smile soon fades into a soft frown, his brow furrowing. She is simmering, much like the bouts of heated water that rises from the depths of the volcano’s belly. Her eyes are like coals, flecked with intense red of burning embers within their irises. Her voice is just as flame-licked, and perhaps if her breath would have touched his skin, it would have burnt his flesh.

“Ceara,” he begins gently, though he does not pretend to not understand what she is alluding to. Her words are fierce and sharp, but with a disappointment that widens the blue of his irises, he knows she speaks of the truth - he is his own obstacle for much that happens in his life, and it is not the first time he has pushed himself away when fear or doubt begins to creep into his mind. In this instance, guilt and uncertainty caused him to take to the skies and leave her by the river, afraid of what he might do, of how he might hurt her, or his family, or anyone for that matter. Of course, he understands his own ways - but Ceara, full of youthfulness and hope and dreams, has not experienced his way of effectively keeping himself away, and thus boils in anger and resentment.

It is complicated, he wants to tell her. He refrains, for he knows that is not the explanation she is looking for. But it is complicated, and his emotions and heart are all tangled up within each other and he simply cannot sort anything out into its proper place the way he normally can.

“It is dangerous for me to be alone with you,” he admits to her, and even now he resists the urge to brush her forelock from her burning gaze, and to erase the thin line on her ebony lips where laughter should be. There is no reason for him to try and find an excuse in the midst of her anger, and Warrick finds it hard to say anything but the truth.

Warrick

@[Ceara]