05-12-2021, 10:52 AM
The dark bleeding across the sky has consumed so much of his attention that, upon first glance, he had only seen the girl. But her insight draws him back to her. On the surface, it is almost amusing to consider the sky a broken egg with a yolk of light. But the more he ponders it, the more he finds it an eerily apt description. Except perhaps the opposite, with the darkness oozing through to mute their world.
The silvery amber of his eyes remain on her for several long moments in quiet consideration, seeing what he had missed before. She, like their world, feels muted. As though the darkness were smothering her as surely as it had the sun. It worries him, this sudden sense of his. And he finds himself wanting nothing more than to draw her in and discover exactly why it is she felt this way to him.
Her question startles him, loosing him from the reverie he had lost himself in staring at her. A small, wry grin tugs briefly at his lips, but he is not one to dismiss opportunity so neatly handed to him. “Important, yes,” he agrees, gaze flitting back to the haloed sky. “Meaningful?” his wry smile widens “I’m still working on that.”
Her request to show her where it was is met with a scrutinizing gaze, smile slipping into something more serious. After a moment, he nods once before shifting closer. “This may be a bit disorienting,” he murmurs softly moments before touching her. They are lifted into the briefest of maelstroms before they are deposited on the beach. One could almost be forgiven for believing they imagined it, were it not for the unquestionable fact that they were not standing where they had been only moments earlier.
He gives her only long enough to regain her equilibrium before nodding at the distant horizon. “It split the sky just over there.” He would not take her through it - not after the last disastrous attempt - but he is rather curious if she could feel anything different so close to where it had first appeared. Whether she could sense that same wrongness he could feel permeating the ether here.
The silvery amber of his eyes remain on her for several long moments in quiet consideration, seeing what he had missed before. She, like their world, feels muted. As though the darkness were smothering her as surely as it had the sun. It worries him, this sudden sense of his. And he finds himself wanting nothing more than to draw her in and discover exactly why it is she felt this way to him.
Her question startles him, loosing him from the reverie he had lost himself in staring at her. A small, wry grin tugs briefly at his lips, but he is not one to dismiss opportunity so neatly handed to him. “Important, yes,” he agrees, gaze flitting back to the haloed sky. “Meaningful?” his wry smile widens “I’m still working on that.”
Her request to show her where it was is met with a scrutinizing gaze, smile slipping into something more serious. After a moment, he nods once before shifting closer. “This may be a bit disorienting,” he murmurs softly moments before touching her. They are lifted into the briefest of maelstroms before they are deposited on the beach. One could almost be forgiven for believing they imagined it, were it not for the unquestionable fact that they were not standing where they had been only moments earlier.
He gives her only long enough to regain her equilibrium before nodding at the distant horizon. “It split the sky just over there.” He would not take her through it - not after the last disastrous attempt - but he is rather curious if she could feel anything different so close to where it had first appeared. Whether she could sense that same wrongness he could feel permeating the ether here.
TEN
@[aureline]