02-18-2019, 09:53 AM
If she has learned anything about life in all her years it has been that the only constant thing is change. Even now years after all the things that had happened to her, she is still changing. Everything around her is changing. Living was to change. She exhales a breath with a small amused look as it explodes in a cloud from her lips. She is listening to him, her dark eyes turning towards him. There is something there, something different that lingers there briefly in those eyes as she watches him. A knowing perhaps.
Because she can know all of his secrets if he were to just think about them. She had been practicing, using those in the Meadow or the River that could not see her to test her boundaries. To work with it until she mastered it and controlled it. To keep anyone from ever hurting her again like she had been hurt with Tarnished.
She wanted to believe him, to trust him, but she doubted she ever would trust anyone fully again. She wanted too. She ached too. But to trust was to give others power. So she was working on playing the part. On being someone that others would trust.
She needed to feel in control, needed to feel the power that would keep her safe. She blinks, turning her face out towards the ice, away from where he could see the surprise that bubbles there briefly. She smoothes it out, surprised at how vehemently she had felt that need to abuse her new powers. She locks it down, tightens control on it until she can only hear a general whisper of emotion from his mind.
“I did not miss the fact where you never answered my question, Leilan.” She says with a small smile as she turns back. “Are things well with you?” A touch of concern lingers there in her eyes when she turns back to him.
Because she can know all of his secrets if he were to just think about them. She had been practicing, using those in the Meadow or the River that could not see her to test her boundaries. To work with it until she mastered it and controlled it. To keep anyone from ever hurting her again like she had been hurt with Tarnished.
She wanted to believe him, to trust him, but she doubted she ever would trust anyone fully again. She wanted too. She ached too. But to trust was to give others power. So she was working on playing the part. On being someone that others would trust.
She needed to feel in control, needed to feel the power that would keep her safe. She blinks, turning her face out towards the ice, away from where he could see the surprise that bubbles there briefly. She smoothes it out, surprised at how vehemently she had felt that need to abuse her new powers. She locks it down, tightens control on it until she can only hear a general whisper of emotion from his mind.
“I did not miss the fact where you never answered my question, Leilan.” She says with a small smile as she turns back. “Are things well with you?” A touch of concern lingers there in her eyes when she turns back to him.