you can run but you can't hide
breath on your skin, I've arrived
A rare smile breaks across Heartfire’s sharp features as she watches the wings emerge from Gale’s shoulders. A smile that highlights what loveliness there is in her normally unassuming demeanor. Had she realized it, the smile would have vanished as swiftly as it came. She had never desired beauty for herself, and she would hate what it revealed.
But she doesn’t realize it, her attention instead fixed on her great grandson’s blossoming confidence and understanding. A gift, free of the strings she might normally attach to them.
“Maybe you have,” she replies softly as her smile fades. She watches him for another moment, her features once again inscrutable. And when she continues, there is a note of a farewell in her tone. “I think you will do well enough for yourself.”
After a long silence, she turns to go, gaze lingering on Gale for only a breath before she turns her attention to distant horizons.
heartfire
@[Gale] I figured I would wrap this thread up unless you had more you wanted to do <3