06-05-2021, 07:11 PM
O C E A N E
Black sands come first. They would be beautiful, so beautiful, were it not for the deeply foreboding shadow that lingers on her periphery. Closer and closer it moves, swooping in so dangerously quick on the charming scene of mother and son. Oceane's heart breaks, a gasp caught in her throat, as the woman's life is taken and the boy - young Ledger, so sweetly innocent - is left motherless.
Loess' Queen leans further into her companion with each scene they are herded into, less out of fear than sheer agony for he life he has been forced to live. The gruesome removal of his eye at the claws of a bear draws anger through her winged frame and she does her best not to hiss through clenched teeth and a scowl, worried that even in this living memory the dark god Carnage will feel her disdain for the things he has done to the man beside her. That she, too, will fall victim to his torture.
There are happy moments. Fleeting, barely there and easy to miss if she had not glued her gaze to the worlds in which they found themselves transported, but happy. A winged woman - beautiful, sensual. Oceane averts her eyes when their touches become frantic and full of longing.
She feels his joy at the prospect of being a father.
But this happiness, too, is short-lived, and soon she is taunting Ledger as she stands beside a different obsidian man. Heartbreak and torture after heartbreak and torture. Oceane is overtaken by a cold wave of sweat as they watch bear-Ledger attack a yearling, the son of his former lover and the obsidian man. She watches him bend and then break beneath the weight of his trauma, at his begging for the pain to end.
At the insertion of his glass heart.
After what feels like a full lifetime, they are returned to Loess, wish fulfilled. Oceane is damp with sweat as she leans into Ledger's shoulder and her heart rushes hot in her chest, a rapid staccato that refuses to slow. She feels his singular eye connect with her but the opalescent woman isn't able to return the gaze immediately, instead pressing her cheek tighter to his neck for another moment in an attempt to center herself.
"Let's not do that again," she finally whispers into the warmth of him before pulling away to allow for a better angle to see him with her warm amber eyes. Her heart has shattered for him, but there is nothing akin to pity that lingers in her gaze. There is only kindness, and a confident resolve. "I was right to trust you," she tells him with a small smile, "Your desire to be a good man, after all of that..." Oceane's words trail off as she gives herself a moment to feel something close to pride at her ability to see beyond what others may not have in his past. There is one thing, though, that eats at her:
"I didn't know you had the magic to... to show me that."
Loess' Queen leans further into her companion with each scene they are herded into, less out of fear than sheer agony for he life he has been forced to live. The gruesome removal of his eye at the claws of a bear draws anger through her winged frame and she does her best not to hiss through clenched teeth and a scowl, worried that even in this living memory the dark god Carnage will feel her disdain for the things he has done to the man beside her. That she, too, will fall victim to his torture.
There are happy moments. Fleeting, barely there and easy to miss if she had not glued her gaze to the worlds in which they found themselves transported, but happy. A winged woman - beautiful, sensual. Oceane averts her eyes when their touches become frantic and full of longing.
She feels his joy at the prospect of being a father.
But this happiness, too, is short-lived, and soon she is taunting Ledger as she stands beside a different obsidian man. Heartbreak and torture after heartbreak and torture. Oceane is overtaken by a cold wave of sweat as they watch bear-Ledger attack a yearling, the son of his former lover and the obsidian man. She watches him bend and then break beneath the weight of his trauma, at his begging for the pain to end.
At the insertion of his glass heart.
After what feels like a full lifetime, they are returned to Loess, wish fulfilled. Oceane is damp with sweat as she leans into Ledger's shoulder and her heart rushes hot in her chest, a rapid staccato that refuses to slow. She feels his singular eye connect with her but the opalescent woman isn't able to return the gaze immediately, instead pressing her cheek tighter to his neck for another moment in an attempt to center herself.
"Let's not do that again," she finally whispers into the warmth of him before pulling away to allow for a better angle to see him with her warm amber eyes. Her heart has shattered for him, but there is nothing akin to pity that lingers in her gaze. There is only kindness, and a confident resolve. "I was right to trust you," she tells him with a small smile, "Your desire to be a good man, after all of that..." Oceane's words trail off as she gives herself a moment to feel something close to pride at her ability to see beyond what others may not have in his past. There is one thing, though, that eats at her:
"I didn't know you had the magic to... to show me that."
― @[Ledger] ―
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a little white light
in a sea gone black
in a sea gone black
i must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
and all i ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by
and all i ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by