[open] dear sun, please come back

[Anuya]

His reaction to her asking about the darkness he had been born into is - annoyingly - a little intriguing. Were his reasons for preferring this darkness similar to her own? But then he’s smirking again - which is an improvement on the frown - and Anuya’s annoyance outweighs her intrigue. Her pale turquoise eyes roll a little but she answers the question anyway - because of course she does. “Not everyone but it’s a lot more common - I don’t know if we count as a whole different species from, you know, you horses or whatever but there were a lot of us and my particular family is… extensive. I definitely gave up trying to keep track of anyone past my eight siblings.” Between marriages and mixed breedings Anuya’s pretty sure she was related to every fae in the Rift one way or another. Some of her siblings didn’t care about that but she did. A little bit related was too much. Of course, making babies had never been something on her to do list so it just wasn’t an issue - and as the youngest sibling she didn’t have to worry about being matched up. All of it was ridiculous when she was 30 and still living with the lot of them and it was even more ridiculous now as she passed 50. Anuya doesn’t like thinking about her family very much - there’s a reason why she and Sidhra had left - and she’s forgotten to pester this starry-haired stallion about the darkness he had been born into so she just says with a grin. “There were a few decades when I was young where I didn’t even know ears came in any other sizes. That's how rare your ears are in my... in that place.” She'd almost called it 'her home' but she knew better than that by now. She didn't have one of those just yet.

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@[gravitas]