| she's the only one who knows what it is to burn.
Anaxarete may be master of shadows, but the shadows called to her as well. And there were times that she could not ignore the call to the darkness and to that darkness she had to return. The shadows were her strength, and when they called she came willingly. Yet in her absence, she was pleased by what she had seen. Ghaul had not been quiet or idle in the time she had been called away. This is what she had needed to see. And so she had come to him, in a swirl of shadow and smoke, to give him the news she knew he'd been waiting for since the moment she'd arrived.
“You’re ready,” she said simply, her dark lips crawling upwards to the smallest hint of a smile. There was a flicker of pride in her cold voice - pride for the boy who had grown so much in only a handful of years. How far he’d come from the prideful child she’d encountered when she’d arrived here. She was intrigued to see what would come of him at the helm of a kingdom. Curious enough that she wasn’t ready to disappear into the darkness entirely.
“Pangea is now yours to lead, Ghaul,” she said, reaching out to brush his shoulder. She’d promised that this kingdom would be his one day. That time was now. Pangea had grown from a dead, empty thing into a kingdom that rivaled any other in Beqanna. Pangea’s reputation was restored.
“I’ll remain here in whatever capacity you see fit,” she added, her voice as emotionless as ever. She’d remain as an advisor. A protector. A general antagonist. Whatever suited the now-demon King. Pangea was as close to a home as she had in this strange new world devoid of all vestiges of old Beqanna. So she would linger in the now-familiar shadows. She would fight for this land if it were threatened - protect that which needed protecting. But she would allow Ghaul to take up the mantle she’d promised to him and all of the responsibility that came with the title.
If he wished to start fires - she would not extinguish them.
For she knew that darkness could be a powerful accelerant in the right conditions.
a n a x a r e t e . |
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SORRY ITS POOPY AND SO OVERDUE <3
