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Holding you close feels like a cut throat // Kagerus - Sabra - 01-23-2019 Where do you go when the world is crashing around you, and home isn't a place you've found? I just flew, for a while. It had been so long since I touched the sky, and for a while that was enough. Thin air, cold air. I was lightheaded and filled with crackling, unspent energy. A lightning bolt in potentia. I flew until I couldn't anymore, thunder echoing in my wake. Didn't care where I landed, just as long as it wasn't where I'd been. When my hooves clattered against the earth again, it wasn't with any joy. Just the inevitable solid weight against my joints, and the heavier realization that I couldn't keep running. Running wouldn't save me from myself or my mistakes. It certainly wouldn't save others from them. So when the moon met the sea, and I was almost out of land, I dropped from the skies like a moonbeam made solid. Looking around, I realized that I truly didn't know where I was. The scope of Beqanna was a vast one, and I didn't expect that I knew every corner of it. I had to admit, though, that this was a prettier corner than I'd expected to fall into. It was as though starlight had bled into the water, painting every stone and grain of sand with silver and shadow. It was lovely enough to distract me from my own distress. The soft light did beautiful things to my cloak, bleaching me from pale blue to lunar white, and drew fractured rainbows across the hollows of my body. How long had it been since I'd thought myself beautiful? Far too long, but in this light, I felt it deep to my bones. Scars turned to tongues of electricity that flowed across my face and shoulders, a tingling fractal web. My pain could be beautiful. Standing on the gritty shore alone, I felt a knot in my chest begin to loosen. @[Kagerus] RE: Holding you close feels like a cut throat // Kagerus - Kagerus - 01-26-2019 Kagerus { and in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times } @[Sabra] RE: Holding you close feels like a cut throat // Kagerus - Sabra - 01-28-2019 When I first lay my eyes on a resident of this land, it is not Kagerus I expected to see. Still, it is undeniably the bone crowned queen who appears before me on the mercurial shore that night so soon after i myself arrived. She is more shadow than light, and I have seen too much to be surprised when she approaches me out of seeming thin air. "Good evening, Kagerus. Not long enough, but my wings... well. I need to build my endurance again." My face tilts upward, feeling the breeze dry the sweat on my skin, cooling the fire burning in my overtaxed muscles. It's a delicious kind of exhaustion, the kind of strain my body had missed in the time I'd been grounded. I'd be dreadfully sore tomorrow, but right now it didn't matter a bit. I'd touched the sky, and come down again without breaking. After the debacle that was the island, it was a much needed victory. Following her gaze to the clouds building overhead, I nodded agreeably at her assessment. "Yes, I flew ahead of it on my way here. I doubt it'll keep me out of the sky, though. The pressure changes are exhilarating." I smiled faintly, remembering the almost painful way the air shifted around when the clouds crashed into each other. The thunder that tried to deafen me. Adrenaline still sang in my veins from the experience. The grin widened as a barely remembered thought fluttered to the front of my mind. I'd promised myself something, when she'd dragged me out from inside myself. Glancing at the length of her through the fiery curtain of my forelock, I hummed a note before a soft laugh floated off my lips. "You know, I hurt very badly when you woke me up. I swore I'd kick your ass the next time I saw you, for making me feel that much pain." My eyes lingered on the piece of anatomy in question, but made no move to act on my words. There was no aggression in my body, no tightness at all. One wing stretched out, the right one. The one I'd almost lost. Healed beyond what I'd once thought was possible. Physically, I was as well as I'd ever been. Things on the inside were still in turmoil, and I wasn't sure how to heal that. Still, I was the one who could brazen her way through anything, wasn't I? @[Kagerus] RE: Holding you close feels like a cut throat // Kagerus - Kagerus - 01-31-2019 Kagerus { and in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times } @[Sabra] so this is not me closing the thread, just kagerus being an ass and Faithful As Fuck lmao - they also don't have to battle!! Anything is great <3 <3 <3 RE: Holding you close feels like a cut throat // Kagerus - Sabra - 01-31-2019 I nod at her assessment of my venture, fully aware that my flight rides the edge of bravery and pure idiocy. I know it's stupid to tempt fate, yet I find myself doing it time and again. It's not as if fate is afraid of pushing back, my body a tapestry of evidence in that regard. It's hardly a conscious decision. I just... find myself, a mile over the ocean and wondering how it would feel to fold my wings and fall. Or staring a predator in the face and daring them to do their worst. Dear gods... How did I get so fucked up? To the point where I get a little thrill at her turning on me, watching her rile like a poked viper when she takes the subtlety from my words. Even in her warlike state, the bay queen is beautiful. She could be some arcane goddess of destruction, illuminated as she is by the hazy moon. I watch her mildly as she spins and flares, only to subside before me with a skyward flick of her eyes. It's a curious reaction, but I can't say I hadn't been expected it in a way. There had never been anything but adoration when Kagerus spoke of her wife. Tonight was no different. "I may take you up on that, later. But no, tonight... I could really just use a place to rest." I wilted as the aftermath of the night's activity began to sink into my bones. The adrenaline, the lightning surging through my nerves. It's gone. Nothing left but an empty shell, a spent brass. Smoke in the wind. My eyes dipped shut at the approaching thunder. It wouldn't be long before the fat spotlight in the sky became obscured, blanketing the beach in a cold darkness. She's ready to leave, it seems, and truly I've got no reason to keep her here. "Yes, yes, of course." I murmur with a sad little smile. "Solace is a lucky mare, to be loved so completely. Impossible to replace. I won't keep you from her any longer." My teeth glinted in the fading light. It would be difficult to tell if I was smiling or bearing my teeth, but it didn't seem to matter. I'd be alone tonight, one way or another. @[Kagerus] RE: Holding you close feels like a cut throat // Kagerus - Kagerus - 02-04-2019 Kagerus { and in my dreams I've kissed your lips a thousand times } |