so reckless you might start feeling; beth

[adna]

one touch will make you so nervous you might stop breathing
one touch will make you so reckless you might start feeling
one touch will finally show to me what you can't hide

She doesn’t really realize how much he has changed.

All she sees is the granite wall of him and it does not strike her that so much has changed in the months that they have known one another. He has not left yet and she does not feel that panic every morning when she does not immediately see him. He asks her questions and doesn’t shy away when she is honest with him. And when she feels that alien fear in her throat, he kisses her head.

She pulls into his side for a second, finds his throat and lingers there. Closes her eyes and finds her way down the sweep of his cheek until she can press a kiss to the corner of his mouth.

Her stomach tightens, feels that flutter in her chest, but she doesn’t linger on it.

She cherishes it, holds it close, and concentrates it on instead of the fear and the pain that flourishes in the back of her mind. She steps next to him as they walk into Loess and feels something like courage from the feel of the warmth next to her. “We should stick near the border,” she says softly, her sage eyes clearing as she glances up and looks to the darkened sky. “The dragons here don’t much like intruders.”

A brief frown as she cranes her neck to look into the shadows the crawl over the land.

“I can’t imagine that she would stay here,” she wonders, thinking maybe she is making such a thing up in her head. “Maybe she kept walking and found her way in the forest.”

She laughs lightly, thinking back to how she first met Beth.

“Maybe she knows how much her mother loves the forest now.”

ADNA