[open] if the whole world just stops singing

[Oriash]

↼ORIASH⇁

they promised that dreams come true

She had stayed. In the end, where else did she belong but with her family? It is all she ever wanted, really. Despite the pain her mother’s had caused, Ori has found that there is nothing but a scar left. Perhaps it is better they found her later in life, when time had had a chance to dull the hurt of being left so young. Maybe it never would have mattered when they found her, because all she truly wanted was to have her family.

This was not life as she expected it, but it was her life, and she would take advantage of what was given. What a fool she would be to reject the one thing she truly wanted.

Though still, Ori is used to being alone, and there are many days she wanders without her family around. Some things will never change, after all, and she is grown where the siblings she had met are not. Their lives are different in this regard. Today though, she has not left Tephra, and she is wandering toward the area that her family often occupies as the sun crests into the sky above her.

The air is warm here, despite the changing season, though Ori is tempted to paint some actual fall colors into the Tephran landscape around her. Her attention is distracted by the sight of Olena though, her head down, looking both tired and upset. With a nicker, Ori makes her way over to her sister (how strange still to think of another as her sister, and how wonderful). ”Olena,” she says, her voice full of affection that she cannot help. ”What’s wrong?”

but they forgot that nightmares are dreams too

@[Olena]