[Scorch/Any] The Bones of the Great Leviathan

[Scorch]

WATCH THE FLAMES CLIMB HIGH INTO THE NIGHT

In the tightness of her embrace, Sarkis whispered the truths of her time in the Beyond with an exhaustion and sadness so intense that Scorch almost feared that this would be their last embrace. The things the daughter spoke of sounded to the mother almost like the dreams she'd had with the dragon and the portal, but this dream Sarkis spoke of left her with no gifts and only bleeding knees and a wracked frame. Scorch felt this pain herself, willing it on to her - but she had no magic with which to truly transfer the wounds, and so the effort remained exclusively sentimental.

"There is an end. You've found it. It's going to be okay."

Upon separation, the two women remain touching at the shoulders, as if to be completely without one another would somehow send them to opposite ends of the earth once more. Still, this close vantage point allowed Scorch to watch tearfully as Sarkis recognized her younger brother, crying softly in the happy way that only the emotional offspring of Scorch could really muster in today's day and age. When Leilan offered only a grin in response to his sister's obvious jubilation, something twisted inside of Scorch - had she remembered her children's childhoods differently than they had truly stood? She knew that Leilan had chosen her side over Wrynn's (a mistake on her part not his), but after the first few months she'd thought they'd all become a happy family... In the chaos of her and Hestoni's slow, amnesiatic death, perhaps she had lost some details of that reality.

But it's like Leilan said now, decades later: the question is what are you gonna do with your future. And only the Gods knew how much she was taking that to heart.

Feeling a different sort of sympathy for her daughter's time-lost memory (for she couldn't deny that Leilan had experience too, but his was not universal and to be fair, neither was hers), Scorch pressed her muzzle gently to Sarkis' throat-latch before explaining.

"You disappeared just after mine and father's death, some... twenty five years ago, or so." She paused, and perhaps Leilan would know why; it was difficult, speaking of her absent husband upon who she had cheated. "But there are a number of your siblings present now, Sarkis, and many, many nieces and nephews. But I do not think that now is the time to meet them - do you feel up to finding a place to rest in the forest over there?"

Scorch

Once Khaleesi of the Amazon Jungle

@[Sarkis] @[Leilan]