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here we are in the heart of the darkness; Briseis - Ether - 11-25-2020 I've learned to live with these fatal gifts The world had settled as a calm had once more stolen over the misty depths of their forested home. Though he holds no certainty the peace would last, he had finally allowed himself to breathe deep as they returned to normalcy. It is a normalcy he cherishes, though he hadn’t realized it before the Pangean army had stormed their way across his home. Across their home. Their haven from the world. Ether @[Briseis] RE: here we are in the heart of the darkness; Briseis - Briseis - 11-30-2020 I need you like a heart needs a beat but it's nothing new-- Their home was always so quiet that it had caught her off guard to have it suddenly engulfed in flames. The only blessing – if you could even call it such – was that by now all of their children were full grown, to the point that they were easy to keep safe. She hadn't understood why Taiga had fallen under attack the way that it had, but all she had cared for in the moment was ensuring that those of their family that still lived here were safe from the flames. And Ether – her perfect, handsome Ether – had not hesitated to protect them. It was why, with him alongside her, that so few nightmares came for her at night anymore. The fires had been perhaps one of the first times that she had withstood something so terrifying with him at her side, and something about seeing that he would never let harm come to her had made all the difference in slaying the fears that tried to take her in the night, too. It was such a strange feeling, for her to know any kind of calm, but she was not surprised at all that it was he that finally brought it to her. She had hardly stirred all night, until she feels him shifting next to her. Though her sleep was dreamless it had been peaceful, and her dark eyes blink open slowly at the feel of his lips along her jaw. It brings a smile to her face, eyes drifting closed against as she laughs quietly into his chest, where she rests her face. “Good morning, love,” she whispers in a voice still full of sleep, finally lifting her head and finding his bright yellow eyes with hers, pressing a kiss to the corner of his mouth. Then she settles back against him, lowering her head once more to his chest and murmuring, “I think we should stay here, just like this, all day.” -- briseis. @[Ether] RE: here we are in the heart of the darkness; Briseis - Ether - 12-04-2020 I've learned to live with these fatal gifts It had brought him so much peace to see her begin to rest more comfortably, the nightmares receding as time passed. To be able to watch her sleep without terror. There is no small amount of pride too, to know that he could banish those nightmares. To recognize the implicit love and trust that must be connected. Ether @[Briseis] RE: here we are in the heart of the darkness; Briseis - Briseis - 12-20-2020 I need you like a heart needs a beat but it's nothing new-- She had never thought herself the type to deserve an everlasting love such as this. Her life before Ether – and even parts of it after him – had been one nightmare after the other, woven together to make the noose that kept her constrained. And it had taken years for it to at last loosen, to free her from it’s grasp. She will never understand how his shadows – the very darkness she had tried to outrun – would turn out to be her savior; the thing to free her rather than further enslave her. Because when he pulls the darkness closer it feels like an embrace, and nothing like the suffocation that she had been used to. When the cool touch of the shadows crawl close enough to whisper across her skin it feels like an extension of him, and she can do nothing but sigh and lean into his lips that trace down her neck. She responds by shifting herself closer, reveling in the warmth of their love and peace. “Do you ever miss it?” She asks him, most of the sleep having left her voice but the tone of it remaining soft. “The rest of the world, I mean.” She has lifted her head now, her nose buried under the shadow tendrils of his mane, searching for the strong slope of his neck underneath. “You could go anywhere in the world, but you choose to stay with me,” she says in a quiet kind of wonder, still – even after all of these years – in disbelief that he would choose to anchor himself to her, when he could be anywhere else. -- briseis. @[Ether] RE: here we are in the heart of the darkness; Briseis - Ether - 01-07-2021 I've learned to live with these fatal gifts There had been a time when the shadows had been his only companion, holding him close when no one else seemed to understand. He had never doubted his own parent’s love for him, but his father had never embraced the darkness as he had. Had always been ashamed of the way the shadows had clung. Had wallowed in guilt when seeing his children in those same shadows. It had eaten at Ether to know that he loved so much what his father had loathed. Ether @[Briseis] RE: here we are in the heart of the darkness; Briseis - Briseis - 01-27-2021 I need you like a heart needs a beat but it's nothing new-- She can’t help but to smile when he kisses her, the touch briefly chasing away all of the doubts and insecurities that liked to haunt her. She couldn’t help but to marvel at him—the quiet strength that he carried, the way that he softened so completely when he was next to her, and how he was still an enigma that she did not fully understand. The idea that he was hers and that he never strayed was something she could not even fathom, and she was often left wondering how her nightmares had transformed into a dream. And so she feels a twinge of guilt when her own self-doubt reflects back in his voice, realizing she had accidentally made him question the very thing he should never be uncertain of. “No, love, that isn’t why I asked,” she says in a quiet rush as she shifts to face him better, her brown eyes full and apologetic. "You are my world. You, and our children. I wouldn't trade our life for anything." She diverts her gaze again, her jaw tightening just slightly as she tries to gather her thoughts. “You just seem so much bigger than this place, and this life.” On their first meeting he had taken her through shadow portals, and shown her a mere glimpse of what he was capable of. She had thought him to be something beyond her reach back then; she had been certain that she would never see him again after that, that he would move onto bigger and better things. Instead he was here, wrapped in the dark with her. “I just don't want to be the reason that you’re...stuck.” Her eyes find the bright yellow of his, searching his face as she offers him a somewhat braver smile, and reaches to gently press a kiss to the side of his face. “When I first met you I thought you’d become a king somewhere, in some far off land that your shadows took you to.” -- briseis. @[Ether] RE: here we are in the heart of the darkness; Briseis - Ether - 02-04-2021 I've learned to live with these fatal gifts She had taught him more than just how to accept himself. She had taught him the true meaning of love. He had never doubted its existence (how could he?), but it had always seemed simple and ephemeral and so far out of his reach. But he had learned it is neither simple nor ephemeral. He had learned just how easy a simple misunderstanding could sever the bonds in the most painful of ways. Ether @[Briseis] |