[private] and in my dreams i've kissed your lips a thousand times // oriash

[Oriash]

↼ORIASH⇁

they promised that dreams come true

Maybe she’d quietly hoped her mother would figure it out, a hope so deep seated she cannot be sure if it is real or not. It’s the sort of hope you do not dare to hope at all for fear of being crushed beneath the weight of it should it not come true.

Yet then there is her name - her full name - on her mother’s lips. And it’s such a different meeting than the one with Solace, where they’d crashed together, all thoughts of anger lost at the sight of her mother come rushing to find her. Delirious and still unwell, Solace had found her. Kagerus had done no such thing.

Still, Oriash finds that the years worth of anger melt away with the sound of her name on her mother’s lips. It does not matter. What good does it do to be angry? All she wanted was her family, some semblance of a life. It was long lost to her, really, but in this moment some glimmer of it stands before her and how can she scorn it?

The illusion disappears as Kagerus talks, revealing blue leopard spots and large, proud antlers. This is Oriash, fully and completely. Ori doesn’t move away or forward, but looks at her mother with something like sadness and hope all mingled together. As her mother mentions questions, Ori finally speaks. ”Why didn’t you come to find me?”

but they forgot that nightmares are dreams too

@[Kagerus] <3