03-24-2020, 02:29 PM
H A L C Y O N
no better version of me
i could pretend to be tonight
i could pretend to be tonight
Ischia. Home.
Halcyon's verdant feline eyes slowly and with purpose slip over the shoreline of the island kingdom and the tropical greenery that sits beyond it. He had spent many months craving the sand and sun of Ischia while roaming the foothills of Loess, but that feeling had faded over time. The boy, on the cusp of his second birthday now, feels as if he has returned to a good book a year later, after forgetting most of the finer details.
He stands knee-deep in the crystalline ocean waters in the very same cove he'd been found by Aquaria and inspects the shore.
His tiger-striped tail sweeps back and forth behind him, inspiring small minnows to give chase as it pendulums to and fro. Halcyon flicks a feline ear, turns his predatory head at the sound of the wind sweeping gently through Ischia's trees, and decides that it's time to find Mama again. He'd left her on the beach that first day, he and Cormorant, to explore and make their home feel like home again ─ and now he aches for her companionship again.
It doesn't take the boy long to find his finned mother; his nose is made for seeking, and he follows the strong path of her scent.
"Hey, ma," he says quietly as he comes to rest at her side, almost awkward but still full of so much love for the woman.
"Are you happy to be home?"
Halcyon's verdant feline eyes slowly and with purpose slip over the shoreline of the island kingdom and the tropical greenery that sits beyond it. He had spent many months craving the sand and sun of Ischia while roaming the foothills of Loess, but that feeling had faded over time. The boy, on the cusp of his second birthday now, feels as if he has returned to a good book a year later, after forgetting most of the finer details.
He stands knee-deep in the crystalline ocean waters in the very same cove he'd been found by Aquaria and inspects the shore.
His tiger-striped tail sweeps back and forth behind him, inspiring small minnows to give chase as it pendulums to and fro. Halcyon flicks a feline ear, turns his predatory head at the sound of the wind sweeping gently through Ischia's trees, and decides that it's time to find Mama again. He'd left her on the beach that first day, he and Cormorant, to explore and make their home feel like home again ─ and now he aches for her companionship again.
It doesn't take the boy long to find his finned mother; his nose is made for seeking, and he follows the strong path of her scent.
"Hey, ma," he says quietly as he comes to rest at her side, almost awkward but still full of so much love for the woman.
"Are you happy to be home?"
─ @[Aquaria]