09-01-2016, 04:33 PM
now don’t you understand…that I’m never changing who I am?
They were like creatures in a snow globe. An army of two against the world, pushing against the factors surrounding them, for no matter how hard the world around them shook and turned, everything around them would stay the same for however long Ruan’s wall of ice would protect them from the elements. Reagan was still for the moment blind, breathing her warm breath against Ruan’s cheek.
Her chest heaved with the weight of the magic dissipating from her body. It would be a long time before anything would come from her in this regard. So spent was she that even the idea of moving now seemed foreign to her. And yet she continued to hear a heart beating inside her that was not hers. With the quiet returned and the adrenaline waning, the pounding that sounded in her ears was not the sound of her own heart. Gingerly, she moved her head down to Ruan’s chest, skin to skin to for warmth and reassurance that he truly wasn’t going anywhere, and heard the comforting echo of her own familiar heartbeat inside his chest. She sighed and closed her eyes, that, while currently sightless, were tired, and her lids fluttered closed for the moment. She did not fall asleep, but allowed herself for the first time in her entire recollection to just lay and be held by someone else, rather than having her being the strong one for once.
The images she had seen of her past—and of his—haunted Reagan’s mind’s eye. Reminded of the life he led, and the life he was even unaware of, she wondered if he would blame himself for any or all of the sins of his kin. Not currently being in possession of her natural set of abilities, she had nothing to hold to except the thought that the fact that he had erected a wall to see to her protection and wellbeing. The least she could do was calm his own shuddering and lean into the lee of the stone—
Her stone. Full of blarney as she was.
“I’m sorry. I did not know any other way to show you what you wanted to know, or how to describe it. I wanted you to understand it as you felt you needed. I did not mean to go overboard.”
Her chest heaved with the weight of the magic dissipating from her body. It would be a long time before anything would come from her in this regard. So spent was she that even the idea of moving now seemed foreign to her. And yet she continued to hear a heart beating inside her that was not hers. With the quiet returned and the adrenaline waning, the pounding that sounded in her ears was not the sound of her own heart. Gingerly, she moved her head down to Ruan’s chest, skin to skin to for warmth and reassurance that he truly wasn’t going anywhere, and heard the comforting echo of her own familiar heartbeat inside his chest. She sighed and closed her eyes, that, while currently sightless, were tired, and her lids fluttered closed for the moment. She did not fall asleep, but allowed herself for the first time in her entire recollection to just lay and be held by someone else, rather than having her being the strong one for once.
The images she had seen of her past—and of his—haunted Reagan’s mind’s eye. Reminded of the life he led, and the life he was even unaware of, she wondered if he would blame himself for any or all of the sins of his kin. Not currently being in possession of her natural set of abilities, she had nothing to hold to except the thought that the fact that he had erected a wall to see to her protection and wellbeing. The least she could do was calm his own shuddering and lean into the lee of the stone—
Her stone. Full of blarney as she was.
“I’m sorry. I did not know any other way to show you what you wanted to know, or how to describe it. I wanted you to understand it as you felt you needed. I did not mean to go overboard.”