show them the joy and the pain and the ending
Oh yes, she did know that. She had seen the results, his lack of warning. But she is not so easily made victim. He had readily discovered the hardness and sharpness of her edges, just as she had discovered his. Just as she had discovered the softness that dwelled too closely beneath that terrible surface of his. She is not so easily hidden from.
She likes to think she has no softness beneath the finely crafted exterior of her flinty surface. She likes to think that there are none who could reach that deep. But he had proven her wrong. Proven that there is a woman who wants, who longs for what she cannot have, beneath the icy face of the once-queen.
That does not mean she would not try to take it however. He had shown her what she is missing, and she is ultimately a selfish creature.
But she lets him go. She lets him go because whatever else her faults, she would not force this one thing that should be given freely.
She feels the retreat of his touch, the retreat of his gentle caresses and heated frame. She had become so lost in the lazy patterns he traced upon her skin that for a moment, the loss disorients her. But it does not last. Cannot last.
Her eyes, so recently soft and a bit hazy, filled with an unfamiliar heat, sharpen and cool. Becoming once more the vibrant, distinctive stare that is so uniquely Heartfire. She does not speak, not even to mitigate the loss of that closeness she had not felt in so terribly long.
Instead she lets him move away, leaving him with all of his faculties.
When he asks her if she will let him leave, she only smiles, the faintest curve of her lips, corners kicking up ever so slightly. And when he asks if she will find him again, she almost doesn’t answer. Almost gives him only the cool stare that is so familiarly hers. She cannot find it in herself to be quite that cruel however, not to the man who had so very recently shown her just what she is missing in this life. ”Perhaps.” The word is soft, almost a whisper, but there is promise in her tone.
heartfire
i filled up my senses with thoughts from the ghosts