@[Shatter Me]
@[Kahzie] / @[Texas] because Brennen wants to know his dad is actually alive
great clouds rolling over the hills
and if you close your eyes, does it almost feel
He walks to the Falls – meanders, even – which is unusual for him. Flying is his typical mode of transportation, and the trip to the Falls by air is breaths away from his Tundra. And flying to arrive before his companions, forcing them to rush to keep up, has historically given him a certain sense of amusement. But he has a soft spot for the young, he always has, and Nihlus didn’t look up to chasing him to the Falls. Actually, Nihlus didn’t look up to much of anything, but Brennen is assuming he’ll recover. If he has what it takes to be a Brother, he will. Even if it takes time.
By air, he would have landed directly at the waterfall. The cool water welcomed him, even though he was not a Falls dweller, in a way that was at once ethereal and yet comforting. It was not the same intense bond that the residents felt, of course, but he was a part of the lives of enough of its people that he liked to think the Kingdom and himself had reached an understanding. When he came in from the air, he felt no real responsibilities to the boundaries of the Falls – but coming in on foot, it’s different. He knows when he comes to the Kingdom border, he can smell it, and he is uncomfortable traipsing across their grounds to the waterfall, though he looks towards it with regret. It’s silly, he knows, to feel comfortable landing wherever but not walking wherever, but it is what it is.
For a moment he closes his eyes, faces flashing past his eyelids, and then he calls into the depths of the Falls, wondering who will answer.