They fold into each other, and for a moment all is right in the world. Solace's anxiety-knotted shoulders relax as her wings reach forward to briefly embrace the girl, her girl, and the taut cords of her neck lose. The moment is not long but it is healing, and Solace savors the so-real warmth and scent of her daughter's skin.
Ori is the first to withdraw and Solace lets her go.
A soft smile plays on her lips, despite her daughter gentle defiance, and the mother of seven nods her acceptance without hesitation. All of her children were strong. She had never been one to contradict them once they stepped out into the world on their own. Ori never had the option to not be the one making the big decisions for herself, and Solace wasn't about to make her think she had shown up just to start telling her how to live her life.
"I don't think I will either..." she says, her hazy mind considering the choice for the first time as her gaze drifts eastward. The once-queen had no plan when she stumbled from her cave in Hyaline, she had not thought beyond the next foot-fall. But she knows she doesn't want others to see her like this, not when she could hardly remember their names and titles... or even how long it had been since she had fallen ill.
"I want to see you, though.”
Ori speaks again and Solace is spared any decision making as her attention returns to the little pegasus. She nods again, her blue eyes tracing the lines of her child's face and the unique way fate had blended her and Kagerus' features. But her body begins to fade The winter brush which had been pinned below her hooves is suddenly freed, rising to pass through her translucent legs. Stretching out a pale, downy wing she turns her head to examine herself with detached wonder.
"I think I'll stay here, at least for a little while."
we are the ever-living ghost of what once was
@[Oriash] <3
