[open] dark clouds will follow -- any

[Avelina]

Although the pain is unbearable, although she is still crying, she feels something shift inside of her at his words. He is right about her being foolish - but everything else is wrong. A frown breaks through her expression first, her tears easing a little, confused about the conflict there. How he tells her “gods” don’t waste time with fools but also that if she forgets that, he will remind her. Which would mean spending time on her… This confusion eats away at her fear and pain, gives her something else to focus on. She grieves for this friendship that was never really a friendship but doesn’t feel afraid anymore. Not of him. She discovers that she feels sorry for Skandar instead. For this boy pretending to be something he isn’t. Can he see that change through the glow in his eyes, how sadness switches to pity? “I forgive you, Skandar.” She tells him, her voice so soft and quiet. The last words she ever intends to say to him in this life are back to the whispers she had grown up with, her gentle eyes shining right before she shifts. She becomes a swift and each beat of her wings is more painful than the last, her chest and lungs ache from her sobs, as she flies away. Skandar may think it's foolish, but she knows she returns to a life filled with love and this keeps her heart from falling into pieces any more than it already has. She won't forget but she will heal and that's enough.

@Skandar