[private] So You Came All This Way For... [Adna]

[adna]

ADNA

I wish I could take the hands of time and turn them in reverse
I'd take back every long goodbye with venom in my words

There is a part of her that immediately wishes that she had not come.

She feels it twist in the back of her brain; she feels it like smoke between her fingertips. It is something that immediately closes around her throat, and she wishes that she could just slip away. But before she can pick up her hooves and turn back toward where she came, he is coming and she knows she’s been caught.

Seen.

Greeted.

She has to remind herself that attention is not always a trap.

Still, she remains deadly quiet as he approaches and her sage green eyes are glittering when they flick up, the serpentine depths of them unblinking as she studies him. Her forelock curls down her narrow nose and she breathes in steadily, feeling that strange sensation of her vision switching to thermal.

There is no rhyme or reason to when she uses it, but there’s something comforting about it. Something disconcerting. It feels like peaking behind the curtain—feels like cheating—but she gives nothing away that she is doing it. Instead she just tilts her head, considering him, chewing on his words.

There’s something about him that feels older, as if from another time, and so unlike those she has known. It’s refreshing and disquieting all at once and she finds that her walls rise just a little higher in response to his genial nature. “Hello,” her voice steady but not overly warm. She wants to laugh when he calls her lovely. Wants to lift her lips and bare her fangs but instead she stays her hand, holds her tongue.

“My name is Adna,” her voice feels stilted, thick, and she shakes her head.

Her eyes focus on him again and she frowns a little. “I need a home.”

A brief laugh as she rolls her shoulder.

“I mean, I have one, but it doesn’t feel like home anymore.”

the only way to being found is getting lost at first
but all I find are more bridges to burn

@[Aten]