when he embraced her it was as if they ran free in the jungle again and all of that disappeared.
hybris melted. her body curled instinctively in to his as the years washed away and they were young and reckless again. all the pain and sorrow did not matter - she recognized how insignificant it was, now - because all that mattered was that he was here and she was here and they were together. somehow, in all the madness and chaos, they had found each other.
where she had changed and aged he seemed to have stayed very much the same. on some level she was awed by it while at the same time she could not be surprised by anything in beqanna any longer. hybris herself had not aged as much as she should have - this she attributed to the merge that had happened with her mother - and upon her return had felt a certain shift. where her mind-reading was gone she sensed that immortality flowed through her veins; temporary or not she was basking in the youthfulness it made her feel.
she could have stood an eternity in his embrace, in silence.
his murmur brought a smile to her ashen lips and she pulled back her head ever so slightly, earth eyes seeking to connect with his of familiar gold. "i am so happy." her own whispery murmur in return, simply spoken with the weight of a hundred years. she wanted to know all of his stories; where he had gone, who had he seen, what he had done. hybris wanted to know everything and she found herself unsure of where to begun, the words tangled and caught in her throat and she hovered on the cusp of this new beginning. |
@[Laura] such a sweet reunion <3
and that's good. i'm having a hard time figuring out the best way to track mine haha. so tagging is helpful! <3