i never knew daylight could be so violent.
She didn’t have to wait long. Sidhra had to stop herself from physically wincing as her sister’s voice split the silence, her long ears twitching involuntarily. But a smile found its way to her lips all the same.
“Did you really think you could outshine your big sister?” she speaks into her sister’s mind, the mental voice familiar but still teasing. It’s refreshing that this line of communication has been returned to her. Sidhra had always preferred the quiet, but to have the only voice she had known over a half century suddenly stripped from her had been...disorienting. A smile flickered across Sidhra’s dark lips as she moved to brush her nose against her sister’s side. She had missed her. Even before they’d been separated from the others, Sidhra had always been closest to Anuya. Some of their older siblings were too stuffy to hold a conversation with, or too pretentious to want to hold a conversation with. Others had been married off into other courts long before either of them had been born. So while Sidhra was in no way as mischievous as Anuya, who seemed to inherit the whole family’s worth, she was certainly better company than those who simply wanted to preen and parade around their fancy company.
Perhaps thats why they had been snatched away. Sidhra had never really taken the opportunity to consider why all this had happened to them, she’d always been so singleminded in her mission to return them home. Could it be that they had been...taken for a reason?
She blinked a few times as she attempted to process this little nugget of information, and as always Anuya was there to bring her back. ”I’ve had enough...for now. But you know I can find something to sulk about later. It’s my special gift,” she said, playing along and giving into the self depreciation all at once, ”Having my voice back helps, too.” she added. But then she quickly pivoted the subject away from bits of her still-missing magic.
“So, what have you been doing. Have you befriended this entire place already?” She asked, mostly in jest but she was almost afraid of her sister’s answer. She could tell just by Anuya’s good mood that this place really did suit her, more so than their homeland perhaps ever did. Something twisted and tore in her chest - the desire to see her sister happy and return home no longer felt compatible and Sidhra knew that at the end of the day she’d choose Anuya over the family they’d had to leave behind all those years ago. Anuya was glowing in more than just the physical sense and Sidhra knew, deep down, that the time was coming that she’d have to close the door on their past. She just wasn’t sure she was ready to make that leap yet.
So for the time being she was happy to entertain herself with her sister’s antics, and let Anuya fill the silence with the stories she undoubtedly had about all the discoveries she’d made while her too-serious sister had been lost to a quiet life of contemplation.
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@[Anuya]