[private] you wouldn't be the first renegade to need somebody, voracious

[Voracious]

You twist, I turn, who's the first to burn?

You sit and stay, I don't obey.

It had never been a question of whether or not he would agree. That decision had already been made before she had even posed the question. Her quiet acceptance of the darkness he harbored had ensured it, and with that, he would have followed her anywhere. It wasn’t hard, especially for a creature who had already risen from the bowels of his own personal hell. He had followed her then too, and she had given him this world in exchange.

Now he wonders what she will give him this time.

Though he had been beset by curiosity, he had only nodded when she told him she would explain later. It had not taken him long to settle his avid curiosity on their surroundings. Had not taken him long to begin wondering about the place in which she’d been birthed.

He follows her without question as they traverse the massive redwoods, neck craning as he peers around, hungry eyes devouring. When she halts at the edge of an abrupt shoreline, he scans the unnaturally carved strait before turning his gaze to Aislyn. He listens to her story with an intensity derived from years of practiced study, keeping his questions in check until she is finished. Her tale sounds as strange and fantastical to him as he knows his must have sounded to her when she had first traipsed into his hidden prison. His own birthplace.

When she mentions that they could stay if he wished, Voracious’ gaze brightens, head tilting slightly. Peering at her for a long moment, he finally says simply, “I wish to stay wherever you stay.”

Though he’s not entirely sure why, he finds her company far more compelling than any physical place. He has begun to believe he might be happiest wherever she is, regardless of their surroundings.

Finally breaking his gaze from her, he glances around them, curiosity rising once more. “The shadows and smoke,” he continues, returning his attention to her tale just as his aqua eyes return to her. “Is that how you were created? Or how you were trained?”

Voracious

@Aislyn