the firestarters always get the burns
and the good guys never get the girl
She looks at him and still wonders what’s going on in his mind. Sometimes she thinks he may be dangerous, other times he’s just her old friend in a different look, and yet she can’t predict any of his actions. Not in his current state she can’t; he has two different ways of thinking, and while these sometimes overlap, they’re most of the time contradicting, and she could not predict him for the life of her.
But she doesn’t have to. She could talk to him when they were both much younger, and she can do so now, still. ”Last a little longer, Cas. You’ve an exposed flank in the East.” she tells him - but it’s not in his nature to listen to her when she talks about military strategies, especially now, now when he’s not wholly himself. As himself, he might have understood its meaning far better than he may in the moment, when his dragon-self is conflicting.
”I see future actions, Cas, but I can’t read your mind. Until you decide to speak up, I know nothing.” And since Sochi left, he had not decided to confide in anyone yet. But now he does, and she smiles when he starts the description. A newbreeze, huh. Not his confidant Lepis then, but a lover. Interesting choice; but Oceane was a fine choice indeed. He doesn’t know about her forced move however; as the dragon takes over for a moment, Ilma looks to the east, though she can’t see the land.
When Castile surfaces, it is with more difficulty than she anticipated when she came to see him this morning. Ilma nods gravely, her posture not falling but she also knows she cannot stay longer, her mere presence tempting the predator inside that a fairy thought to just let surface over time. ”As soon as I am able to.” Where and when that was, depended on a few different factors, and she didn’t like either.
So perhaps, she thinks, it might be safer to leave this information with Lepis as well, before she leaves. ”I’ll leave you to yourself, Cas. Be stronger for as long as you can.” she smiles up at him, faithful that he will hold on a little longer, but knowing that eventually, he’ll just be a dragon on the loose, with no more ties to Loess than to his family.
@[Castile] we can end here if you like or he can roast her tail when she leaves, either is fine :p