Ouroboros Spine coalbreath

harsh intake of breath, to see his masked face again, to see the darksea simmer of his eyes. "antigone! y-you're here!" chickadee said nonsensically, then blushed to the gills to hear him utter her name. one of them. it didn't feel false, well it hadn't. not until she'd tried to cut herself off from brecheliant with it.
something she could never tell mama or dwin.
"it's good to see you," she said with feeling. "what happened? where did —" her voice fell away, just into a soft smile that said none of it mattered.