09-10-2020, 07:45 AM
l e p i s
gave me the blues and then purple pink skies
There are stars over Loess now.
They turn into embers when Ghaul catches her, the sense knocked out of her by Wolfbane’s wing blow return by the uncomfortable pushed abruptly back in. She coughs, chokes, struggles to catch her breath, and by the time she can see from her smoke-filled eyes, the scene in front of her is very different. Only a few seconds have passed, yet the world seems different.
Wolfbane lays bleeding on the earth, a burn-red stump on his side rather than a white wing.
Eyas – her Eyas? – is lunging toward them and Gale – her Gale? No an older Gale – stands in flared-wing support beside the white dragon, a living barrier between her family and the fire.
Wolfbane is only a single stride away. She could leap, now, and finish this. A second leap will carry her into the fire, and with her the Curse.
Two jumps, and the world will be safe.
That is a certainty.
What Eyas offers is a chance, and Lepis’ blue eyes meet her daughter’s black ones.
Lepis had taught their children to trust in sure things. It was their father who’d encouraged them to strive for the impossible, who’d taught them to hope.
[Do it] She says without words to Eyas, her voice too hoarse from coughing to make a sound. [Do it now]
It seems Wolfbane had taught Lepis to hope as well.
@[idk everybody]
They turn into embers when Ghaul catches her, the sense knocked out of her by Wolfbane’s wing blow return by the uncomfortable pushed abruptly back in. She coughs, chokes, struggles to catch her breath, and by the time she can see from her smoke-filled eyes, the scene in front of her is very different. Only a few seconds have passed, yet the world seems different.
Wolfbane lays bleeding on the earth, a burn-red stump on his side rather than a white wing.
Eyas – her Eyas? – is lunging toward them and Gale – her Gale? No an older Gale – stands in flared-wing support beside the white dragon, a living barrier between her family and the fire.
Wolfbane is only a single stride away. She could leap, now, and finish this. A second leap will carry her into the fire, and with her the Curse.
Two jumps, and the world will be safe.
That is a certainty.
What Eyas offers is a chance, and Lepis’ blue eyes meet her daughter’s black ones.
Lepis had taught their children to trust in sure things. It was their father who’d encouraged them to strive for the impossible, who’d taught them to hope.
[Do it] She says without words to Eyas, her voice too hoarse from coughing to make a sound. [Do it now]
It seems Wolfbane had taught Lepis to hope as well.