Great Bear Wilderness [wp] tukstal

velia consumed the words of ingwë, as if she'd been sand-bound to a desert and his voice was the gentle trickle of rainfall. he spoke of growth, of strength, of a future she'd not dreamed of before now. and she wondered, deeply, if the man who stood before her had always known this would be the life he lived. 

her thoughts found a quiet voice, "did you know?" she asked, realizing after a breath that more context was needed to her question. "did you know you would be leader? husband? teacher?"

moss green eyes grew with the expectancy that he would have all the answers she could dream of, but the song in her heart whispered to her that he could not tell her this in the way she wished. 

she had hoped, naively, that one day she would wake and hold all the answers to her life.