05-23-2021, 08:10 PM
Mazikeen
The gentle touch is appreciated though Mazikeen can only really offer him a sad smile in response. She’s so grateful for this small comfort even as guilt churns in her stomach. Over him wanting to be useful to her - over there mere idea that he felt like he needed to be useful at all, even if that very same thought drives her for so many of her own interactions. She feels guilty for taking comfort over something she had willingly signed up for, feels guilty for complaining about the weight of something she’s unwilling to pass off to anyone else.
She doesn’t have any right to this comfort but she’s grateful for it anyway.
Concern flickers across her expression when he takes a small step backwards and she wonders if she’d made him uncomfortable after all. He does not leave, though, and overs her a small smile that does enough to soothe her worries.
And then when he mentions the sun hurting his eyes, that concern comes right back. For the millionth time, Mazikeen wishes things were different. If they were, she could ask Gale to do whatever it is his vision magic can do to make the sun easier for Selaphiel as the angelic boy adjusts to life with the sun.
But though she has selfish reasons for keeping Gale’s attention all to herself lately, there are selfless ones too - she doesn’t want to introduce him to too many of those that live here in Hyaline. Doesn’t want the Curse to get to know them.
Though the sun is obscured by some clouds overhead, it is still a little bright where they stand - especially out in the open. She has an idea, and she brings it up cautiously “Would you like to explore a bit today with me?” She gestures to the nearby foothills where the shadows are a little deeper and the mountains beyond. Mazikeen feels oddly self-conscious asking this - like she's just a filly again and trying to make a new friend.
She doesn’t have any right to this comfort but she’s grateful for it anyway.
Concern flickers across her expression when he takes a small step backwards and she wonders if she’d made him uncomfortable after all. He does not leave, though, and overs her a small smile that does enough to soothe her worries.
And then when he mentions the sun hurting his eyes, that concern comes right back. For the millionth time, Mazikeen wishes things were different. If they were, she could ask Gale to do whatever it is his vision magic can do to make the sun easier for Selaphiel as the angelic boy adjusts to life with the sun.
But though she has selfish reasons for keeping Gale’s attention all to herself lately, there are selfless ones too - she doesn’t want to introduce him to too many of those that live here in Hyaline. Doesn’t want the Curse to get to know them.
Though the sun is obscured by some clouds overhead, it is still a little bright where they stand - especially out in the open. She has an idea, and she brings it up cautiously “Would you like to explore a bit today with me?” She gestures to the nearby foothills where the shadows are a little deeper and the mountains beyond. Mazikeen feels oddly self-conscious asking this - like she's just a filly again and trying to make a new friend.
@[Selaphiel]