[SWE] Festival of Lights - 317 PC

KIADA

burn it into my collar, hollowed onto your wrist

It’s completely and wholly unexpected, so much so that in Fox’s touch, the Harpy stills so fast one might think she were still Ascended as a figure appears beside the ivory and golden lantern, and she seems to forget momentarily of everything around her as she hears her mother’s voice, brows pinching and eyes glistening immediately. She had been so angry for so long, until she’d been reborn again and realized the hard truth. And to hear that Rexanna had not held any of it against her?

Well, it’s all seen in the way she seems to move again, tail slipping around her leg as she moves toward her mother, still as radiant as she’d always been, a soft little “Mom?” croaked from her lips, stepping forward until the ghostly figure of her mother has wrapped her arms around her tightly, leaning into the touch that tucks her hair behind her ear as she can’t hide the tears anymore, slipping from her cheeks as she murmurs her quiet little apologies into the air for the Penumbra’s ghost to hear only.

Everything else that goes on, those that potentially remain around her, are nothing more than a dull sound behind her from the thunder in her ears and the familiar chime of her mother's voice.

heaven knows i don't follow, but i believe in this