And inside you're burning
with some secret yearning
In the blink of an eye, her life had changed irrevocably. She had woken up in a strange land, with strange memories stirring in her head. She had met strange creatures and fought great battles. Strange magic had held her within its grasp, had left her with a piece of it in her breast. And then she had been dumped unceremoniously back in her own world, in an old life that now seemed to fit her too tightly, like sweater that had shrunk in the sun.
It is time to shed that sweater, to shed that life. She knows this, but she does not know how. The Dale is all she knows. Her sister’s sweet smile, covering a once broken body. Her golden friend who had gone from death to life. This is all she has known in her young life her. Or at least, all she had known until new magic had plucked her from her cozy life and deposited her in a foreign land to fight the battles of others.
But she is here now, once again, feeling oddly bereft. As though her life is missing something it once had held. But that cannot be, for she has everything she has ever had. She has wanted for nothing in her life. But in that other life, the one worlds away, that had been different. She had been different. She had had a husband, children. But she had been lonely, so very lonely. She remembers that sensation all too clearly. It leaves a chill in her spine, a distinct dissatisfaction in her soul.
So she is here, weaving through the dense trees and picking her way across a carpet of leaves and needles, trying to find that which is missing. It is the dead of night, her only solace in this time of uncertainty. Starlight glitters across her lovely red and teal coat, a beacon in the night, shading the scars slicing her cheek, scars that even now are fading to muted hues of red and green. She doesn’t believe that she will find what she is searching for here, but she has to try. At the very least, she has to try.
Lirren
starlit daughter of joythief and carnage
@[Zayn]