07-06-2017, 09:02 PM
you won’t see me fall apart
the world is changing
forever melting and spawning she remembers the way the earth heaved a great sigh and everything she knew and loved and wanted and hoped for died and drowned and there was nothing left nothing nothing nothing
She blinks a few times against the memory, a memory unlike Ellyse's but equally potent. The swell of the ground ,the pitching, the churning. No, Thorunn did not witness any death (though she will forever remember the way her fathers orange eyes closed and never opened again) but the death of her childhood. The land that swam and clashed until, finally - finally - it settled on this final form.
perhaps you can find mine
wings delicate empty marrow cumbersome heavily relied on in battle as weapons and escape but with the smallest pressure along the flight feathers just a clip is needed to ground a great beast and return them to earth and and and
"Perhaps," she says, though she means it as an agreement. Ellyse should understand, they have the same impenetrable tones, though Thorunn's are rehearsed. In the light of day, truly naked, she is not so stoic. Her father this her father that -she mimics him, forgetting herself on occasion. Forgetting him on more than one occasion.
why tephra why tephra why tephra
She doesn't need to mull these words.
"After the..." what does one call it? "Before, I lived in the Valley. After, I followed Eight. This is all I knew, and it's become home." It's an honest answer, not one with lofty ideals of greatness or entitlement. Thorunn came here first, associated it with home, and made it home. That was the beginning and the end.
forever melting and spawning she remembers the way the earth heaved a great sigh and everything she knew and loved and wanted and hoped for died and drowned and there was nothing left nothing nothing nothing
She blinks a few times against the memory, a memory unlike Ellyse's but equally potent. The swell of the ground ,the pitching, the churning. No, Thorunn did not witness any death (though she will forever remember the way her fathers orange eyes closed and never opened again) but the death of her childhood. The land that swam and clashed until, finally - finally - it settled on this final form.
perhaps you can find mine
wings delicate empty marrow cumbersome heavily relied on in battle as weapons and escape but with the smallest pressure along the flight feathers just a clip is needed to ground a great beast and return them to earth and and and
"Perhaps," she says, though she means it as an agreement. Ellyse should understand, they have the same impenetrable tones, though Thorunn's are rehearsed. In the light of day, truly naked, she is not so stoic. Her father this her father that -she mimics him, forgetting herself on occasion. Forgetting him on more than one occasion.
why tephra why tephra why tephra
She doesn't need to mull these words.
"After the..." what does one call it? "Before, I lived in the Valley. After, I followed Eight. This is all I knew, and it's become home." It's an honest answer, not one with lofty ideals of greatness or entitlement. Thorunn came here first, associated it with home, and made it home. That was the beginning and the end.
THORUNN
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