She had stopped to inspect a faintly glittering stone, eyes straining through the dark as she tapped at it with on hoof, only to find Ellie gone when she looked up again. With a soft huff of annoyance, she had trotted forward to try to catch her again, but she had disappeared into the endless night. She finds herself far more irritated than alarmed by this abrupt turn of events. Ellie is always bulldozing forward with a bone-headed vigor Lumi couldn’t quite understand herself.
She should be afraid she knows, but she just can’t seem to find it in herself to be. Dad constantly fretted and worried, but mom never seemed to. And even though she knows there are monsters out there, she can’t quite seem to find it in herself to be truly frightened. Nothing bad had really happened, besides the sun going out. So what is there to be afraid of?
It’s a foolishly naive way of thinking, but then, Lumi is still a foolishly naive girl. One who has yet to learn the ways of the world. And right now, her biggest concern is figuring out where the heck Ellie had gone.
With the soft glow of her own skin to light the way, she traipses haphazardly through the trees in the direction they’d been heading. Hopefully she would catch sight of her soon. And to her credit, she does. Or at least, she spies the floating lights that seem to trail her sister everywhere. And of course her sister could not be far ahead of them.
Close enough for her to hear the words her sister mutters into the darkness. An abrupt laugh escapes her lips as she pushes through the underbrush to come alongside Ellie. She tosses her a faintly haughty look as her chin juts a bit higher into the air. “You’d look so much better if you had rocks for eyes at least.”
@[Elegance]
@[The Monsters] please feel free to have at her serial immortality!