I watch the city burn, these dreams like ashes float away...
Yeah. One little word that told her all she needed to know. He wouldn’t come looking for her, not even knowing she was so close. She closed her eyes against the pain that washed through her, missing the way his lovely teal eyes started to tear up. She heard him turning away though, heard the falling of rocks and the sharp gasp as he left her again.
Maybe she wouldn’t have looked, if it hadn’t been for the sharp strike of a falling star to her hip that made her gasp too, sucking in a breath between clenched teeth as her eyes flew open and she jolted forward out of the path of more meteorites raining down on them. The shower of falling stars followed him toward the water, but so did she; at least they could make themselves smaller targets, sinking into the water and leaving only their heads and the tops of their necks as potential strike zones.
“Is this why you were out here?” she asked, gasping against the cold and shivering as it sank past her coat and into her skin. God, the water was icy, and being submerged up to her neck sounded like the worst idea, right until another meteorite came crashing down nearby, plopping into the water and sending it splashing her in the face. She snorted and shook her head, sending water spraying off her mane and forelock. Still seemed better than taking it to the face, that was for sure.
...your voice I never heard, only silence.