Hotaru
You press flowers into my skin
Hoping for the day my roots could touch the earth
The snake’s scales are cool and smooth against her skin, delightfully unfamiliar and altogether different from Sunjata’s scales or her own Komodo skin. She shivers and shifts to turn her head, lips brushing against the curve of the snake’s head where it lingers on her shoulder as her hands come to brush over the coiled muscle around her waist. Hoping for the day my roots could touch the earth
Doubt you? Never, darling, her sweet voice laughs in return. I merely know you have far more interesting plans than the love life of little old me. Now Sunjata…perhaps it was more believable for it to have been partially on his own behalf. Ru hopes that someday she and the Flood will be able to meet Frey together, perhaps without a blindfold over the Flood’s eyes - she wants that for him, that level of healing. How sentimental and selfless of her; she has to get readjusted to that.
Anything I can do for you in the new season? Hotaru doubts it given how steady Rae’s realm has always been, but she will continue to ask each time Frey blesses her with another gift.
But no one told you that my garden grew a kingdom
Made of bones and blood and dirt
Made of bones and blood and dirt
