08-28-2021, 10:17 AM
mazikeen
Mazikeen's grin grows a little when Reave laughs, remarking that his bones had grown into him. Had it been painful when they emerged? Were they still? Neither of these questions break the silence before he gets to the reason of her visit.
“No, not just to admire them.” She confirms, her eyes returning to the red-orange they have been defaulting to lately - since she had been changed. But why had she come here? Simple curiosity combined with her growing restlessness. The need to leave Hyaline and do something, even if it was only a conversation.
And Reave is so far easier to speak to than some of the others that knew her before. He’d seen her at her weakest, she’d told him her fears and her hopes, but even then she does not feel the same discomfort or the weight of before dragging on her. She is glad she hadn’t gotten around to visiting when she had first heard he had taken over Nerine - maybe it would’ve been worse now if she had.
She tells him the truth since there’s little reason to do otherwise. “I met Aela recently, and she suggested I come to visit.” Perhaps not the most interesting of reasons, especially since she does not know exactly what to talk about now that she is here. But Aela had shared a memory with her of Reave laughing and so she assumes the two might be close, so that might be enough. If the flaxen mare had any other reason for encouraging Mazikeen to go, she does not know what it might be.
Because it had been a topic with Aela as well, she remarks with a small smile - curious about whether Reave felt the same disdain for his brothers as his sister did. “You’ve quite the family, I’ve learned.”
“No, not just to admire them.” She confirms, her eyes returning to the red-orange they have been defaulting to lately - since she had been changed. But why had she come here? Simple curiosity combined with her growing restlessness. The need to leave Hyaline and do something, even if it was only a conversation.
And Reave is so far easier to speak to than some of the others that knew her before. He’d seen her at her weakest, she’d told him her fears and her hopes, but even then she does not feel the same discomfort or the weight of before dragging on her. She is glad she hadn’t gotten around to visiting when she had first heard he had taken over Nerine - maybe it would’ve been worse now if she had.
She tells him the truth since there’s little reason to do otherwise. “I met Aela recently, and she suggested I come to visit.” Perhaps not the most interesting of reasons, especially since she does not know exactly what to talk about now that she is here. But Aela had shared a memory with her of Reave laughing and so she assumes the two might be close, so that might be enough. If the flaxen mare had any other reason for encouraging Mazikeen to go, she does not know what it might be.
Because it had been a topic with Aela as well, she remarks with a small smile - curious about whether Reave felt the same disdain for his brothers as his sister did. “You’ve quite the family, I’ve learned.”
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