01-28-2020, 11:16 AM
O C E A N E
Time passes slowly ─ so slowly, almost painfully ─ in the moments following Lepis' comment about Sochi. If she had not been so fixated on her perlino dun counterpart, her gilded eyes unwavering in their attempt to hold onto something real, she would have missed the slight tilt of Lepis' head. But she doesn't. And in that moment she knows that the other pegasi knows ─ or, at least, suspects. And now she must do something about it.
Oceane's tongue feels thick and abnormal in her mouth as the Loessian Cleric makes an indomitable effort to infuse their conversation with continued playfulness, but she forces a tentative smile anyway. "Dragons were used as part of the King's Guard in my homeland," Oceane is able to find her voice eventually, her eyes kind but worried as they rest on the blue-grey of Lepis', "But, ah, I hadn't realized that Castile could ─" Her ears flick in their tousled lavender bed and she laughs quietly, the sound a combination of amusement and foolish shame.
Now that she knows about Sochi's existence, she dare not tell Lepis about the way Castile had playfully and coyly toyed with her curiosity, refusing to tell her his secret to keep her interest in his hot and thick. So while it pains her intellect, Oceane feigns ignorance and falls into silence once more, listening to the blue-pointed woman's account of Nerine and Beqanna's dragon family and moving her amber eyes to gaze upon the distant mountain when it's mentioned.
At least you know you won’t have to deal with fire-breathing and sharp teeth biting on everything, Lepis ends with amusement in her voice and in her eyes, and Oceane can't help but to snort at the painful hilarity of the statement. "I might," she whispers, the confession painful as it is ripped unwillingly from her lips.
Her eyes meet her new companion's and they are filled with worry ─ worry that she has ruined this new potential friendship, that she has ruined a family that existed long before she'd found Beqanna, that she has made Castile's life exponentially more difficult with the child that grows within her...
That her child will now live the same life that she had in Nau-Aib.
"Lepis..." she says shakily, "What does Sochi look like?" She would find the woman and... and what? Oceane is unsure what she would even do, what she could even say to Sochi ─ but she knows she needs to find her anyway.
@[Lepis]
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Oceane's tongue feels thick and abnormal in her mouth as the Loessian Cleric makes an indomitable effort to infuse their conversation with continued playfulness, but she forces a tentative smile anyway. "Dragons were used as part of the King's Guard in my homeland," Oceane is able to find her voice eventually, her eyes kind but worried as they rest on the blue-grey of Lepis', "But, ah, I hadn't realized that Castile could ─" Her ears flick in their tousled lavender bed and she laughs quietly, the sound a combination of amusement and foolish shame.
Now that she knows about Sochi's existence, she dare not tell Lepis about the way Castile had playfully and coyly toyed with her curiosity, refusing to tell her his secret to keep her interest in his hot and thick. So while it pains her intellect, Oceane feigns ignorance and falls into silence once more, listening to the blue-pointed woman's account of Nerine and Beqanna's dragon family and moving her amber eyes to gaze upon the distant mountain when it's mentioned.
At least you know you won’t have to deal with fire-breathing and sharp teeth biting on everything, Lepis ends with amusement in her voice and in her eyes, and Oceane can't help but to snort at the painful hilarity of the statement. "I might," she whispers, the confession painful as it is ripped unwillingly from her lips.
Her eyes meet her new companion's and they are filled with worry ─ worry that she has ruined this new potential friendship, that she has ruined a family that existed long before she'd found Beqanna, that she has made Castile's life exponentially more difficult with the child that grows within her...
That her child will now live the same life that she had in Nau-Aib.
"Lepis..." she says shakily, "What does Sochi look like?" She would find the woman and... and what? Oceane is unsure what she would even do, what she could even say to Sochi ─ but she knows she needs to find her anyway.
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i must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
and all i ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by
and all i ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by