Dragoncrest Cliffs i’m brimming over,
wearing my dream like a diadem in some better land.
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Her gaze, glittering like his, only gave a slow, sidelong glance to where he was cradled near her in the hollow; she'd chosen well. There would be nobody else to hear what she wanted to confess--to him. Her ears tilted toward his words, and her throat closed at the empathy in his voice; she brought her gaze away, hoping he hadn't seen the sheen in them or heard the faint, rasp of a hitch in her breath. She needed to steel herself. Tried to. Faltered.

Where to begin? Or continue, for that matter? Aure crossed her snowshoe paws in thought, sparing a flick of the ear his way as she wandered through everything that had happened in her earlier life. Her gaze, at it always had, went to the stars—or where she knew they were, veiled behind curtains of moonlight and night’s foliage. "Once, I would have given anything to search for him. I'd have given mountains cause to kneel, or molded ze winds themselves to carry me, with naught but ze stars to guide me. Stars... whom I owe so much."

First, she told him, lowly and without fail, of her northern haven, her brother, and the false tenant who they had tended to there -- Dennan. His name felt thick and abrasive on her tongue, like the scars he'd given her; she almost bit it out; but she recalled his invitation to the children, drawing them out with such hymns on some gods-day. How it had turned, instead, into some frenzied baptism of some dastardly sect. "Whenever I awoke, it felt as if I had slept an eternity. Waiting for my hanar to breathe so naturally was..." The sentence tapered off, and she shook her head. "His breaths were ze most precious things I had ever heard. Ze stars had been ze only ones to keep me company since then. As I waited, I... we... both died, in a way. Twice. In ze waters, and in repose."

"Because I lost him, months ago, I suppose I feel obliged to repay ze cosmos in some way, for all of their guidings." She bloomed for the Guard, but in a different way, as much as she had to tell.
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i’m brimming over, - by Andraste - December 19, 2018, 12:04 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Vercingetorix - December 19, 2018, 10:31 PM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Andraste - December 19, 2018, 10:58 PM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Vercingetorix - December 19, 2018, 11:11 PM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Andraste - December 20, 2018, 12:58 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Vercingetorix - December 22, 2018, 12:16 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Andraste - December 22, 2018, 12:45 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Vercingetorix - December 22, 2018, 01:32 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Andraste - December 22, 2018, 01:54 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Vercingetorix - December 22, 2018, 02:01 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Andraste - December 22, 2018, 02:17 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Vercingetorix - December 22, 2018, 02:25 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Andraste - December 22, 2018, 02:49 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Vercingetorix - December 22, 2018, 03:17 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Andraste - December 22, 2018, 03:37 AM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Vercingetorix - December 22, 2018, 03:50 PM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Andraste - December 22, 2018, 04:27 PM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Vercingetorix - December 22, 2018, 04:39 PM
RE: i’m brimming over, - by Andraste - December 22, 2018, 04:56 PM