Redhawk Caldera You cheated on me? When I specifically asked you not to?

eek i'm so so sorry I left this dangling. we can fade w your next post?

Home for Maia was gone, set ablaze. Well, she supposed this was Maia's home now—and hers, too. The longest home she'd ever known.

And here she was, leaving it again. Her chest grew tight; she wanted, very suddenly, to cry.

Stiff upper lip, darling, said her chipper, self-assured conscience, a voice she'd known since birth.

I'm sorry, Maia, Lilitu said instead, swallowing down the lump in her throat. I will be back. I promise.

With a few parting words and some fleeting embraces—if she held on too long, she'd never leave—Lilitu once more left Maia and Brecheliant behind.

Not for good; never for good.

Just for now.