06-25-2021, 12:51 AM
You think I'll be the Dark Sky so you can be the Star?
I'll Swallow you Whole.
I'll Swallow you Whole.
It is rare for her to be away from Tiercel and the rest of their family in the evenings, but on this autumn night, she has let time slip away from her.
Instead of retreating back to the corner of Loess that was more or less theirs she remained in a mostly inhabited clearing, the last of the sunset having finally faded away, and her own eyes fixed to the sky above. It is a clear night, just as she had hoped, cloudless and bright. The stars appear, slowly at first, and then seemingly all at once. Ever since the eclipse she found herself watching the sky after sunset, just to be sure; as if her staring might somehow keep them from disappearing again.
She did not feel the same longing as before, looking at them. She did not feel that same urge to return them that had haunted her for so long, nor did it feel like staring at them only served to illuminate the emptiness that existed in the expanse of her chest. She had found things to fill that space with, things that swelled and filled until the captive star in her heart had to fight for room; the place that Tiercel, Kamaria, Isaure, and Tiernen took up.
But still, she reaches for that familiar light, simply to reassure herself that she still can.
She gathers up several threads of starlight, spinning them into compact orbs and letting them hover well above the Loess horizon. And then, one by one, she begins to send them across the velvet-dark expanse of sky, each one coming faster than the last. They shower through the dark, dissolving into stardust at the height of their arc, and disappearing entirely long before they could risk causing any sort of damage to the earth below.
There is no purpose to this, other than for her own entertainment, and as always, she does not consider that it might catch the attention of someone nearby.
Instead of retreating back to the corner of Loess that was more or less theirs she remained in a mostly inhabited clearing, the last of the sunset having finally faded away, and her own eyes fixed to the sky above. It is a clear night, just as she had hoped, cloudless and bright. The stars appear, slowly at first, and then seemingly all at once. Ever since the eclipse she found herself watching the sky after sunset, just to be sure; as if her staring might somehow keep them from disappearing again.
She did not feel the same longing as before, looking at them. She did not feel that same urge to return them that had haunted her for so long, nor did it feel like staring at them only served to illuminate the emptiness that existed in the expanse of her chest. She had found things to fill that space with, things that swelled and filled until the captive star in her heart had to fight for room; the place that Tiercel, Kamaria, Isaure, and Tiernen took up.
But still, she reaches for that familiar light, simply to reassure herself that she still can.
She gathers up several threads of starlight, spinning them into compact orbs and letting them hover well above the Loess horizon. And then, one by one, she begins to send them across the velvet-dark expanse of sky, each one coming faster than the last. They shower through the dark, dissolving into stardust at the height of their arc, and disappearing entirely long before they could risk causing any sort of damage to the earth below.
There is no purpose to this, other than for her own entertainment, and as always, she does not consider that it might catch the attention of someone nearby.
Islas
@[Ashhal]