[private] come down sweet reverence

[Elliana]

Time, ultimately, above all else, was the thing that tore her family apart. Her brother staying under that water far too long, her mother lost in her depression for such a length of time, as if she were under the water with James, that when she came up for air everyone was already gone. Tired of wait for a woman to save herself, a women who didn't want to save herself. She wishes she would stayed and waited at the water’s edge, just to speak to her mother one more time. The things that go unsaid are often the things that eat at you—whether because you didn't get to have your say, or because the other person never got to hear you and really wanted to.

When she first left Novus, she dreamed for months that Po would come and find her. No matter how he had forsaken she and her mom, she still dreamed her guardian angel would come for her. She had been waiting for some time, all the while she has been watching, that crumbling god in her toppled cathedral, as life holds its breath. She travels now through Beqanna, bouncing back forth between the Pampas and Nerine, her feet dancing as she tried to decide just where the let the wings round her ankles land.

And for all the times she has crossed over its borders, Elliana has never stopped amongst the giant trees of the Taiga. Until today, as she travels north to Nerine and its guardian.

Elliana smiles at him when he finds her, a pleasant, contradictory smile to her current mood. “You caught me.”

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