they promised that dreams come true
She wants to be mad. No, not wants - expected to be mad. She expected to scream and shout her fury, expected words to tumble out of her mouth about how she had never been hard to find. Solace had found her, still barely functional, so how is it Kagerus had been unable? Yet as her mother says she has no excuse, whatever anger there might have been fades away. Because in the end, she doesn't want to be angry. She has never wanted to be angry.
No, all Ori ever wanted was her family. That opportunity stands before her now, if she can leave the hurt behind her.
Even grown, she looks so much like her parents, the perfect mix of the two of them. Despite their absence in her life - or perhaps because of it - she has been shaped by them. Shaped by their legacy, which left her as “the daughter of Kagerus and Solace” for so long. It is because of them she was stolen to Loess and, in some small way, raised by Castile. Yet despite that, she is still her mothers’ daughter. Perhaps she was always destined to be.
Ori doesn’t fill the silence. She has never been the kind of girl to fill the silence, but she lets her mother go on for a while until the mention of Tephra, and much of her family, sits in the air between them. Beside her, Ori’s childhood memory of Kagerus and Solace materializes, a better explanation than Ori can ever really manage herself. ”Your ghosts have followed me. For a time, they were my companions, fake though they were. Eventually they were my torment, the thing that haunted me.” The words, though true, are not harsh. She simply needs her mother to understand.
“I cannot simply forget what we have lost, but I would like to try to gain something now. I would like to come to Tephra, at least to visit.” She doesn’t know where she belongs, has never known it, but to find her family would be a start.
but they forgot that nightmares are dreams too
@[Kagerus]
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