Ophelia
we're just two ghosts
swimming in a glass half empty
swimming in a glass half empty
Ophelia takes Maea's guidance readily, having not been inclined to help until their strange almost-twin dictated they should. These people had never done anything to help Ophelia in their lifetime, whether as a human, Ascended, or Ancient. They don't exactly care. Any loyalty they feel is to the other Ancients and perhaps the land itself, not to the people in it.
Tagging along like a fawn, Ophelia leverages a young man onto their shoulders and follows in Maea's wake with only minimally less struggle. Neither of them seems particularly strong or suited physically for these sorts of endeavors. (All the more reason to have not helped, in Phi's opinion.)
"I don't have a home," they share lackadaisically. "I sleep wherever I can and stash my clothes in a bolthole that I move around." Or they simply sleep and maneuver around in their shifted form, which hasn't bothered them yet. Nor the occasional necessity for nudity when chances to wash their clothes become few and far between. Looking to the side at Maea past the man's arm, they raise one pale brow. "Where do you live?" Her family's farm is out of the question given what Phi knows of the family's history, but Ophelia has equally not seen Maea at any other time. Perhaps she has recently returned to the Grounds then?
Tagging along like a fawn, Ophelia leverages a young man onto their shoulders and follows in Maea's wake with only minimally less struggle. Neither of them seems particularly strong or suited physically for these sorts of endeavors. (All the more reason to have not helped, in Phi's opinion.)
"I don't have a home," they share lackadaisically. "I sleep wherever I can and stash my clothes in a bolthole that I move around." Or they simply sleep and maneuver around in their shifted form, which hasn't bothered them yet. Nor the occasional necessity for nudity when chances to wash their clothes become few and far between. Looking to the side at Maea past the man's arm, they raise one pale brow. "Where do you live?" Her family's farm is out of the question given what Phi knows of the family's history, but Ophelia has equally not seen Maea at any other time. Perhaps she has recently returned to the Grounds then?
trying vainly to forget
the pain that came with heartbeats
the pain that came with heartbeats
