Noctisardor Bypass gouba

as if heda's words stirred him awake from the thick, viscid fog of dreamscape created by the sweet, warm mothersmilk that sits in his belly, the newborn lets out a small noise. the vessel cannot hear her, nor himself; but he thinks he can determine that he is in fact awake.

ezra, she names the vessel; though it would be some time before he came to know it as him.

ezra, the helper. ezra, the protector. ezra, the vessel. ezra, the justicebringer.

so it was written in the starweaved threads of his life-force, so it shall be.

but sleep comes for him again, so soon! and ezra, utterly helpless to fight it, goes back to snoozing softly against her flank, pressed against the side of gideon.