Beyza
Beyza listens with interest as Ledger tells her about Oceane and their twins - all the easier for locking up her jealousy to where it could not bother her for now. With her mind wiped clean of anything that might trouble her, she’s able to allow a small smile to shine in her eyes as she listens and it doesn’t feel false.
His amusement at her mention of three daughters is mirrored in her own expression and she nods, confirming that it was a handful. It had been a joy to devote herself to them, even when the eldest and middle were getting into trouble (and occasionally successfully wrangling the sweetest and youngest into their games). Thoughts of them anchor her like they always have, the strange trio that had changed her life.
And Beyza watches his golden head as he turns to look back across the sands while he answers her question, as though she might be able to tell just from looking at him whether the quiet sadness surrounding his answer was false or not. It doesn't seem to be and for a moment she is uncomfortable with the idea of Jamie speaking of their daughters like this to someone - and then there's a flush of anger at the idea the reaper might consider this separation temporary. This white fire is cooled quickly, it has no place in her current conversation. There's no reason at all that she should assume two fathers have the same views.
At the question about whether it is difficult to live here, Beyza shakes her head and her cool smile is there when Ledger looks back to her. “No, that was the whole point.” And though Beyza isn’t willing to share everything about why they had moved, not wanting to unlock those other boxes in her heart where she’s stored those emotions she won’t deal with, she’s at least able to give Ledger part of the truth. “We used to live in Pangea but this was a much nicer place for the girls to grow up. More colour.” Fewer monsters.
It is her turn for her eyes to drift to that distant short for a moment, that easy smile brightening in a way she's practiced - changing her expression from cool to friendly “Though it does make it harder to keep track of what’s going on in the places outside of this island. Has anything interesting happened on the mainland in the last couple years?”
His amusement at her mention of three daughters is mirrored in her own expression and she nods, confirming that it was a handful. It had been a joy to devote herself to them, even when the eldest and middle were getting into trouble (and occasionally successfully wrangling the sweetest and youngest into their games). Thoughts of them anchor her like they always have, the strange trio that had changed her life.
And Beyza watches his golden head as he turns to look back across the sands while he answers her question, as though she might be able to tell just from looking at him whether the quiet sadness surrounding his answer was false or not. It doesn't seem to be and for a moment she is uncomfortable with the idea of Jamie speaking of their daughters like this to someone - and then there's a flush of anger at the idea the reaper might consider this separation temporary. This white fire is cooled quickly, it has no place in her current conversation. There's no reason at all that she should assume two fathers have the same views.
At the question about whether it is difficult to live here, Beyza shakes her head and her cool smile is there when Ledger looks back to her. “No, that was the whole point.” And though Beyza isn’t willing to share everything about why they had moved, not wanting to unlock those other boxes in her heart where she’s stored those emotions she won’t deal with, she’s at least able to give Ledger part of the truth. “We used to live in Pangea but this was a much nicer place for the girls to grow up. More colour.” Fewer monsters.
It is her turn for her eyes to drift to that distant short for a moment, that easy smile brightening in a way she's practiced - changing her expression from cool to friendly “Though it does make it harder to keep track of what’s going on in the places outside of this island. Has anything interesting happened on the mainland in the last couple years?”
@Ledger