Though he had been looking up to the stars, her presence drew his gaze back to the waves and seafoam from which she stepped like iron to a lodestone. As effortlessly beautiful as always, Safrin took the Tidebreaker's breath away - a much more practical proposition when he was at her surface shrine. "Safrin," he murmured again, bowing his head briefly, but raising it again in the next moment to gaze upon his goddess with quiet gladness that she had answered.
"Yes." To the Greatwood and even the Bay in Halo in recent seasons. "Peace has made it easier." Though a lack of War did not necessarily mean a lack of danger. The pelt that he had brought was proof enough of that, and Flora's concerns about future threats to Torchline had not gone unheeded.
"Have you been well?" The last time he had seen her at the consecrating of the Bubblestream she had looked radiant - but it had been an official occasion. Now, when it was only the two of them, he could relax some of his formality and ask after her own well-being as one of her devoted, rather than as a leader.
"Yes." To the Greatwood and even the Bay in Halo in recent seasons. "Peace has made it easier." Though a lack of War did not necessarily mean a lack of danger. The pelt that he had brought was proof enough of that, and Flora's concerns about future threats to Torchline had not gone unheeded.
"Have you been well?" The last time he had seen her at the consecrating of the Bubblestream she had looked radiant - but it had been an official occasion. Now, when it was only the two of them, he could relax some of his formality and ask after her own well-being as one of her devoted, rather than as a leader.
