01-24-2020, 10:01 PM
O C E A N E
Hath in her veins,
to beat and run,
the glad indomitable sea,
the strong white sun.
to beat and run,
the glad indomitable sea,
the strong white sun.
She stands off against Ilma, muscles taut and eyes wide with concern. She half-expects the visiting woman to deny saying what Oceane had heard her say just moments ago, to claim that she had simply imagined something that she had wanted to hear. But she doesn't, and Oceane is thankful for that ─ though, swiftly, Ilma's explanation draws dread back into the opalescent woman and weaves it between her sinew and veins. They wouldn't want to see him?
They wouldn't want to see her son?
Her...
… son.
"My son?" she whispers when finally she has processed her way through Ilma's confession. A son. Her third boy. In her mind, she has already begun to hope that maybe he would fill the hole that her missing two had left in her heart before she'd left Nau-Aib ─ but even now, she cannot escape.
Even now, they will not want to see her son. They will be unhappy.
Her blood runs cold with terror as her mind flashes back to those days in her homeland that her newborn boys had been taken from her side as she screamed so loud and so hard that she'd made her own throat bleed. She would never let it happen again. She would die before it did.
I would advise you not to worry about it, Ilma says and Oceane shakes her head as she begins to pivot away from the ivory woman. "I think... I just need a moment," she murmurs to the diplomat without offering any explanation as she begins to move away.
@[Ilma]
(If Ilma wants to stop Oceane from leaving, that's totally fine! Otherwise we can do another thread after Alcinder is born <3)
" "
They wouldn't want to see her son?
Her...
… son.
"My son?" she whispers when finally she has processed her way through Ilma's confession. A son. Her third boy. In her mind, she has already begun to hope that maybe he would fill the hole that her missing two had left in her heart before she'd left Nau-Aib ─ but even now, she cannot escape.
Even now, they will not want to see her son. They will be unhappy.
Her blood runs cold with terror as her mind flashes back to those days in her homeland that her newborn boys had been taken from her side as she screamed so loud and so hard that she'd made her own throat bleed. She would never let it happen again. She would die before it did.
I would advise you not to worry about it, Ilma says and Oceane shakes her head as she begins to pivot away from the ivory woman. "I think... I just need a moment," she murmurs to the diplomat without offering any explanation as she begins to move away.
(If Ilma wants to stop Oceane from leaving, that's totally fine! Otherwise we can do another thread after Alcinder is born <3)
" "
neamrel / thedayofshadow
i must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
and all i ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by
and all i ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by