Firewater

Caelynn

I will keep you, day and night,
here until the day I die.
I'll be living one life
for the two of us.

Caelynn knew nothing of the boats made for the sky. Only that they existed, were scary from below, and honestly seemed like an accident waiting to happen. She looked around and blushed, ”This questions seems stupid, but honestly - everything today has seemed stupid. Are we going to the docks? Like where they put boats for water?”

Caelynn warned of a few spots in the lava flows that were soft during her life, once she almost fell in one. When her feet hit hard slag she froze for a few seconds. “it can’t be… the lava flow would keep this hot for another 10 years…” She tried to hold back the whine that escaped slow and fearful. Another thing that changed, another thing that showed her she wasn’t at home, not *really*. Then she heard his words, since it’s floating now. Her whine only depended. ”Floating? Like the sky boats? Or like… it’s just been raised a bit from the ground growing like it can in quakes? Caelynn was afraid of his answer, she really couldn’t imagine what he was saying. What either him or Lena had told him. It was all crazy, they both had to be crazy. Unless the crazy one was her, but she couldn’t believe that too.

Shaking off the fear she looked around again, ”The smoke is thick today, can’t even see the mountain range.” She chose to believe that the smoke had patterns that obscured the mountains this badly. Though her face still held tears and her cheeks reddened from the anxiety and worry she picked her head up and hiked on, this was life not a dream. She’d already tested that theory.

Caelynn listened contently and sighed, ”I guess start the farthest back you know? Or maybe .. maybe I should take a break from feeling like I’m in a new world. Tell me about your life?” She asked to learn about him so casually that it even caught her off guard. She just wanted the weird information to stop for a bit, wanted to feel normal for a minute or three.