hybris had stories to tell - a thousand or more, for one that might listen - and some small part of her was eager to share. or, more true to fact, eager to find a friend that wanted to listen. she ached for quiet nights with easy company, trading stories or tales or perhaps even meaningless words. it was the promise of conversation that had drawn the old mare from hiding - reborn in the wake of her mother's leave.
because she had not always been just hybris. sage's death and the following storm had thrust the spider in to the mind of the sparrow and they had been one. it was not long after that madness that she had fled.
hybris she was, but parts of her mother would always linger. those memories were not so easy to scrub clean.
ah but that was for another day because it would seem that the past had come to haunt her. it could have almost been a joke - a cruel one, truly - that his was the face that she imagined. her first true friend. her first true love. unrequited love that had made the sparrow question it all and yet grow stronger in the aftermath.
she did not fault him for it. their lives had different paths to take.
but it was his face she saw now, so achingly familiar that she wanted to laugh with joy and scream with the unfairness of it all. because it simply couldn't be him. her beloved magnus had been so long gone from her life that she could not wrap her mind around him being here. now.
and then he spoke, and by gods it WAS him.
she laughed, too, but it was a sound born of shock. a strangled sound that was more a cough and was followed by a stunned silence. until, finally, her own voice broke free. "it is possible. and i am." at that point she could not help it and she stepped forward with the echo of a hundred moments playing in her mind.
for all the days and months and years he was her friend and she reached out to him. |
@[magnus] @[Laura]
zomg laura this thread makes me happy and gah your writing just... IM NOT WORTHY <3 <3
ps: do you prefer me tagging laura or magnus??