11-19-2019, 09:35 PM
He is beautiful on her shore. The way the sunlight strikes him brings rich color from his blue dun marks, makes his feathers and coat like polished stone. His little smile on his lips is a sweet one as he takes in the myriad patterns she'd spent so many days laying into the sand. She wants to remember him, just like this. Looking so very much like he belonged where he stood.
The spell breaks when his eyes moved to her, where the water laps at her belly in a meditative rhythm. He is more than a figment of her imagination, more than a passing stranger to smile at and move on from by the next day. He's Pteron, and her traitorous heart couldn't build walls high enough to keep him out. That stupid promise they had made, it had seemed like the safest bet at the time. Idiot girl, she hadn't realized just how alive his touch would make her, just how much like drowning it was to have him gone.
That was what it felt like to watch him heed her call. Drowning in the thin air. She wanted to give him what she knew was expected. To uphold her part of the deal. It was what she'd intended every moment from the moment they'd parted in Taiga to that one they were suspended in now. But now. Now he was too close, and she realized that to touch him would hurt as much as it healed.
She could have laughed it off, if he had stopped talking. If he hadn't asked for her honesty. It was the one thing that she knew would ruin all. The space between them dwindled, filled with his tender, well meaning words. And a kiss, one that ties her insides in knots when he presses it to her skin. Silent tear tracks glitter on her cheeks, and she quivered with need and want and every unspoken thing.
"I'm sorry," she whispers at last, leaning into the warmth of his touch as if it might be the last time. "I've broken a promise, you see." She gave a hiccuping laugh, a wet bubbling thing. "I thought it would be easy to keep, but you're so damn wonderful, Pteron. I guess I should have known better than to hope a bird could love a fish... or to think that I could keep myself from loving you." She bit off the last part, knowing it was the real betrayal. She wanted him, and she wanted him to want her in the same way. It was a stupid game she'd agreed to play and she'd been playing for higher stakes than originally planned.
A hard swallow pushed through her throat, as she addressed him while looking at the sea. "Can we just pretend. Just for a little while. That you love me like I love you. I won't ask anything of you again." She blinked rapidly, fighting against the misery at war inside her. There was no way to win that she could see. More than anything, she wanted him to hold her, to tell her she hadn't ruined everything. But perhaps it was too much it ask.
@[Pteron]
The spell breaks when his eyes moved to her, where the water laps at her belly in a meditative rhythm. He is more than a figment of her imagination, more than a passing stranger to smile at and move on from by the next day. He's Pteron, and her traitorous heart couldn't build walls high enough to keep him out. That stupid promise they had made, it had seemed like the safest bet at the time. Idiot girl, she hadn't realized just how alive his touch would make her, just how much like drowning it was to have him gone.
That was what it felt like to watch him heed her call. Drowning in the thin air. She wanted to give him what she knew was expected. To uphold her part of the deal. It was what she'd intended every moment from the moment they'd parted in Taiga to that one they were suspended in now. But now. Now he was too close, and she realized that to touch him would hurt as much as it healed.
She could have laughed it off, if he had stopped talking. If he hadn't asked for her honesty. It was the one thing that she knew would ruin all. The space between them dwindled, filled with his tender, well meaning words. And a kiss, one that ties her insides in knots when he presses it to her skin. Silent tear tracks glitter on her cheeks, and she quivered with need and want and every unspoken thing.
"I'm sorry," she whispers at last, leaning into the warmth of his touch as if it might be the last time. "I've broken a promise, you see." She gave a hiccuping laugh, a wet bubbling thing. "I thought it would be easy to keep, but you're so damn wonderful, Pteron. I guess I should have known better than to hope a bird could love a fish... or to think that I could keep myself from loving you." She bit off the last part, knowing it was the real betrayal. She wanted him, and she wanted him to want her in the same way. It was a stupid game she'd agreed to play and she'd been playing for higher stakes than originally planned.
A hard swallow pushed through her throat, as she addressed him while looking at the sea. "Can we just pretend. Just for a little while. That you love me like I love you. I won't ask anything of you again." She blinked rapidly, fighting against the misery at war inside her. There was no way to win that she could see. More than anything, she wanted him to hold her, to tell her she hadn't ruined everything. But perhaps it was too much it ask.
@[Pteron]