Ouroboros Spine The time I knew what happiness was

Raimo heard her words but did not trust them. She had not asked him to visit the ulaq nor stopped him when he drifted by, which answered any doubts he harbored. Still, she was here now. Trying to manage his expectations and manipulate him - or so he thought.

He was more than bitter about it. Displaced by Adrastus and put aside by the others, these things Raimo could handle and work against. It was her dismissal of him that hurt the most.

The air is sharp and cold and he is alone, her light lending him no warmth. The stars glint overhead; he draws a breath again and relishes the taste of her there, the vaguest of warmths.

You were... my first, you know. He admitted, finally dropping his eyes down from the heavens. He is cast in full shadow - not even his brighter eye illuminated.