February 13, 2019, 10:40 PM
She's left waiting in silence, trying to determine what it means as it stretches between them. Seconds, minutes, hours pass in that silence, endless and deafening as it presses forcibly on her eardrums like the calm before a bomb goes off.
A bitter chuckle was Sorin's answer. Her ears dipped cautiously as oak optics clouded, her guard and her walls simultaneously rising.
Liri had lifted the glass in her metaphorical hands, had forgotten that the shadow was as broken as she was. In holding it up to the light, she had cut herself on his jagged edges.
Warily, the girl's snowy head ducked as if subconsciously protecting her throat. The fae began to edge away, feeling something dark manifest at her side - it seemed to crackle through the air like static preluding a lightning strike.
His head twisted as he shouted and the ghost was gone.
She darted from his side, gasping in fright at the boom of noise behind her, as fast as three legs could take her and as well as her disease-wracked body would allow her.
Vaguely, as the sylph found the treeline, some part of her recognized that it wasn't to Liri Sorin had spoken. It was that hidden part of him - the part that Liri knew was haunted.
But the northron had demons of her own.
The sight of the bear twisting towards her, the harsh snarl of his voice as it ripped free of his throat conjured memories of the past.
Russet fur and sickly green eyes danced in her mind's eye, a tiny voice whispering, "You deserve this."
Liri shook her head as if to physically rid herself of the ghoul. Panic gave way to rationality.
She'd come to stop some several feet away, back curled against the icy foliage at the edge of the forest. She watched Sorin from this perch with unreadable eyes, peeking at him hesitantly to see if the episode had passed as her heart stopped pounding.
After a moment, when her ears had lifted and her trembling had stopped - her compassion won out.
"Are you alright?" Even the whisper seemed sinfully loud as the words carried across the space between them.
A bitter chuckle was Sorin's answer. Her ears dipped cautiously as oak optics clouded, her guard and her walls simultaneously rising.
Liri had lifted the glass in her metaphorical hands, had forgotten that the shadow was as broken as she was. In holding it up to the light, she had cut herself on his jagged edges.
Warily, the girl's snowy head ducked as if subconsciously protecting her throat. The fae began to edge away, feeling something dark manifest at her side - it seemed to crackle through the air like static preluding a lightning strike.
His head twisted as he shouted and the ghost was gone.
She darted from his side, gasping in fright at the boom of noise behind her, as fast as three legs could take her and as well as her disease-wracked body would allow her.
Vaguely, as the sylph found the treeline, some part of her recognized that it wasn't to Liri Sorin had spoken. It was that hidden part of him - the part that Liri knew was haunted.
But the northron had demons of her own.
The sight of the bear twisting towards her, the harsh snarl of his voice as it ripped free of his throat conjured memories of the past.
Russet fur and sickly green eyes danced in her mind's eye, a tiny voice whispering, "You deserve this."
Liri shook her head as if to physically rid herself of the ghoul. Panic gave way to rationality.
She'd come to stop some several feet away, back curled against the icy foliage at the edge of the forest. She watched Sorin from this perch with unreadable eyes, peeking at him hesitantly to see if the episode had passed as her heart stopped pounding.
After a moment, when her ears had lifted and her trembling had stopped - her compassion won out.
"Are you alright?" Even the whisper seemed sinfully loud as the words carried across the space between them.
"i'll keep you here when I lose my mind."
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Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Síff - February 11, 2019, 10:21 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Sorin - February 12, 2019, 03:32 AM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Síff - February 13, 2019, 06:34 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Sorin - February 13, 2019, 07:20 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Síff - February 13, 2019, 07:39 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Sorin - February 13, 2019, 08:37 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Síff - February 13, 2019, 09:33 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Sorin - February 13, 2019, 10:18 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Síff - February 13, 2019, 10:40 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Sorin - February 13, 2019, 11:13 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Síff - February 14, 2019, 12:34 AM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Sorin - February 14, 2019, 01:14 AM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Síff - February 18, 2019, 09:02 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Sorin - February 20, 2019, 03:54 AM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Síff - February 20, 2019, 07:32 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Sorin - February 20, 2019, 08:16 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Síff - February 20, 2019, 08:32 PM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Sorin - February 21, 2019, 12:59 AM
RE: Cause we both need it to forget this fear - by Síff - February 21, 2019, 01:40 AM