06-12-2024, 10:48 AM
Fazia appreciates the break in her attention, the chance to pull herself out of her thoughts and focus on someone else. Her eyes widen a little at what her pinkish glow reveals - this creature who breaks apart from the shadows and joins her in her stillness - but there is no white to show her surprise, just more inky black surrounding those slit silver pupils.
Her eyes drink in his features but she feels no fear or repulsion, only fascination. She has seen birds, of course, and some squids and creatures in the water sport beaks like the one that mangles his voice. It is not so strange to her though she does think he’d look better without it. To her it seems something unnatural - like a rabbit born with sharp teeth and masquerading as a carnivore.
His sharp question coaxes a sly smirk from her, a fractured piece of her father’s humour surviving past her infancy where it had once flourished. “Are any of us?” She asks in return, exaggerating her ambivalence and letting her eyes drift away momentarily as though in deep thought over the matter.
But the starry skies cannot hold her attention for long and her gaze snaps back to him when she speaks again - in a more natural voice, blunt and easy. “You certainly don’t seem real.”
Her eyes drink in his features but she feels no fear or repulsion, only fascination. She has seen birds, of course, and some squids and creatures in the water sport beaks like the one that mangles his voice. It is not so strange to her though she does think he’d look better without it. To her it seems something unnatural - like a rabbit born with sharp teeth and masquerading as a carnivore.
His sharp question coaxes a sly smirk from her, a fractured piece of her father’s humour surviving past her infancy where it had once flourished. “Are any of us?” She asks in return, exaggerating her ambivalence and letting her eyes drift away momentarily as though in deep thought over the matter.
But the starry skies cannot hold her attention for long and her gaze snaps back to him when she speaks again - in a more natural voice, blunt and easy. “You certainly don’t seem real.”
@bael