Ciri
Night begins to fade and the stars start to wink out with it. One by one they slip into the sunlight and her own star power begins to fade. It is a weak glimmer that swirls around her by the time Castile finds her. A fine sheen of sweat coats her smoky skin and her exhaustion is written all over her facial features. Hollowed drawn sockets filled with dim sluggish swirls of silver. When the rustling of brush threatens a possible threat, perhaps she has been found by her attacker at last, she tries to force the stars to stay as hard as she can. Releasing them as her whole body gives out and sinks further into the earth, realizing who it was.
And it is him, the dragon he had claimed to be, but in the flesh. Scales and leathery wings that reach out as if to conceal her from the growing dawn. Most would be afraid… Perhaps she should be afraid…. Instead she felt at peace. Secure. Safe. How could she be afraid of that she seemed drawn to most? How could she be afraid of a dragon when she had already faced worse myths? She was not normal. A girl who called the stars and who would fly with dragons if she only had the chance.
”My dragon.” Confused at first, the words falling thickly from her and not realizing the slip of her tongue. Blood still trickled from the ravaged open flesh of her cheek although it was beginning to clot. There is concern across the scaled ridges of his face and she tries to remember the blue roan predator, realizing she never even knew the name of her attacker. ”I don’t know.” She finally admits quietly, her voice holding a razor sharp edge of anger that she had been caught so off guard.
”I need to get back to Hyaline. I got confused in the chaos.” She finally manages, trying to find her feet although her body protests, wanting only to rest after the long all-nighter she had pulled. Yet she knows Amet will notice she is missing by now and she feels the familiar tightening of guilt grip her heart, he would be worried.
all of time and space, everywhere and anywhere, every star that ever was
@[Castile]