Could I but ride indefinite, As doth the meadow-bee
And visit only where I liked, And no man visit me
And visit only where I liked, And no man visit me
She departs from her perch overtop him partly because she knows he finds it difficult to accept the gestures that Hotaru desires to give. Allowing space and a moment to breathe that he needs more than she does. Bumping her shoulder companionably back against his, she smiles down at her lap at his objections. "Perhaps I should have you write my dating profiles then, maybe I'll have better luck." Alys' tarot reading often lingers in her head these days, but she doesn't know how to move forward without falling prey to the same old habits that had invited so much hurt into her life in the past.
Laughing quietly at his self-assured response, Ru aims a smirk sideways at him. "I can just outpace you in the skies." She doesn't shift or even half-shift as often as some Attuned, which leaves her easy to underestimate. It helps that her animal urges were already aligned with her personal ones well before Frey ever turned her into a hybrid.
Propping her arms behind her in the water, the Valkyrie looks up at the sky through the boughs that reach towards one another from around the circumference of the lake. "Think we should head back soon?" She wouldn't mind lingering, talking, but Tal has never been much known for that. Not about the kind of things that Ru has on her mind. This trip has been a pleasant distraction already, one she won't discredit.
Laughing quietly at his self-assured response, Ru aims a smirk sideways at him. "I can just outpace you in the skies." She doesn't shift or even half-shift as often as some Attuned, which leaves her easy to underestimate. It helps that her animal urges were already aligned with her personal ones well before Frey ever turned her into a hybrid.
Propping her arms behind her in the water, the Valkyrie looks up at the sky through the boughs that reach towards one another from around the circumference of the lake. "Think we should head back soon?" She wouldn't mind lingering, talking, but Tal has never been much known for that. Not about the kind of things that Ru has on her mind. This trip has been a pleasant distraction already, one she won't discredit.
And dwell a little everywhere - or better, run away
HOTARU
