02-16-2017, 06:06 PM
THERE'S A HOLE IN MY HEART
and I don't know why
He watches her carefully as she spoke of her boy. She was strong and steady. Voice unwavering, eyes bright but guarded. A warrior. And she was all alone. His thoughts get pulled back to the days before the change in the land. Back when he was a simple man who had pledged his allegiance to a mute princess. Now all that he had left were his tattered memories and no voice to call out. Often he felt that he had spent too long in his own company, and had he still had his voice it probably would have faded with disuse anyway. Now, watching the Sapphire girl and her charge, he felt a light that he hadn't in a long time. He wanted to help.
He knew that he probably wasn't wanted in their party of two, but she had been the only one to show interest in the gentle giant in so long that he felt indebted to her. He wanted to keep her safe and aid her in protecting the boy. Rocinante was a warrior and he would fight to protect them if she would let him.
You don't speak?
The question jars him from the thoughts running rampant through his head. She looks at him not with pity, but with curiosity, and for that he is eternally grateful. With a short nod he confirms the pantomime that he had so poorly executed. His lack of a voice had never bothered him after the fall of the Gates, and he would gladly give it up for his princess a thousand times over, but still he wanted nothing more than a simple conversation with this sapphire girl. From one guardian to another.
In a split second decision, he asks an important question in the only way he knows how. Ducking his head to his chest, the knight waits half a heartbeat before pointedly turning to look at where Ruan plays. He waits another heartbeat more before returning his eyes to meet the sapphire warrioress'. He would follow the duo and keep them safe if she would let him. Besides, he knows how lonely the path of a guardian be, and two sentinels are better than one when the darkness finally comes.
Rocinante | Blue Roan | Belgian Draft | Stallion