Solace
"You know I won't tell!" The buckskin and cream girl returs playfully, but with an underlying sincerity. While growing up she had sometimes felt as if her mother favored Svedka, or atleast admired him more, for his adaptability and appitie for adventure. But she had developed her own brand of indipendance, even if she couldn't be found scaleing mountains and far-away sandbars
Solace listens to Aemt intently -piecing together what he says with stories she had heard from her mother. She knew of Iset, the defiant and brave queen, and she feels sorry that he too was unable to do what she had hoped was possible for her family. When he trails off and shakes bronze and gold head she does not press him, she thinks she knows what the next words would be - for both of them.
But a boyish smile overtakes his features, changing the mood and his next words caused her to draw in a little gasp. Those were not the words she was expecting.
Involuntarily she looks away, over the jungle and up to the far-off volcano and giving herself a moment to think as they walk. What he offered would be the biggest change of all - yet somehow the idea did not frighten her.
"Hyaline."
She turns the name slowly, truly tasting it for the first time.
The mountainous land had been the centerpiece of so many of her mother's stories that it had taken on a mythical quality in her imaginings. The lake there had held a place in her heart for a long time, and even if she had never been there before she felt as if she knew its crystalline depths already.
When her young face turns back to his, her face is alight with a new and ardent enthusiasm. "I think, I would like that."
you are my sunshine
@[Amet]
