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K amaria thinks her mother was too protective during the eclipse, and she attributes this to her unfortunate delay in exploration. Islas had told her the story about her father’s disappearance, but hearing how the darkness had taken him away did little to console the girl’s anger. She’d been weary under the weight of the eclipse, of course, but her fatigue didn’t take her zeal for trouble.Even as she wanders through the Pampas, the star-girl feels herself grow warm with frustration toward Islas. Her mother kept her chained to Loess and that little cavern for too long, in her opinion. Even with danger looming in every shadow, Kamaria sees her mother’s protectiveness as cowardice, as a tool that was used to chain her to her childhood. And she couldn’t have done much about it, except explore the edges where Loess and Hyaline bled together, where she’d met the pale boy who seemed like he was about to fall apart. Although she’d been hoping to meet someone who she explored Hyaline, Kamaria hadn’t expected to find anyone in the Pampas. The sound of a voice makes one navy-tipped ear tip toward the stranger, and the girl’s stone-freckled face soon follows. The starlight fox bounding through the tall grass dances back in an instant, running to twist around the stranger’s legs. It leaves a trail of soft blue light behind it, like a wreath of a hundred star’s kisses at the mare’s feet. The strange smiles brightly but Kamaria’s lips remain pulled tight in her characteristically unfazed expression. Her dark eyes shine among the dumortierite stones that glitter in the light from her stars, though it’s almost impossible to see if there’s any emotion to be found in them. “The night’s just getting started,” she says across the space between them. Kamaria drifts forward on long, slender legs until she’s close enough to touch the stranger. “If it’s so late for you, then why are you out?” |
credit to nat of adoxography.
@Aela