I carried my own ashes to the mountains
There were a few more easily decimated too, and he kept lifting them in intervals so they could be dispatched and destroyed just as quickly as they surfaced from the ground. Eventually, those too wound down into nothing, and the familiar outline of the leaves, snow, branches, and bramble remained a more comforting sight. “Do you want to keep going?” Uncertain if she’d had enough, and wrapping more of his own flames around her in a shield of safety to continue warding off any chill.
But her comment had him thinking, and knowing there were some who wouldn’t be attending the upcoming gathering – whether or not that’d be to their benefit wouldn’t truly be clear. There’d likely be roles designated and plots unfurled, and he didn’t want to leave the Harpy out of the loop if she’d be interested in striving just as much as everyone else – because as Safrin had said, one portion dealt solely in fortune and luck. If enough of them strived…he sighed, head tilting to study her. “I did find out from Safrin there are ways to gain back the regions lost to them,” his jawline jutting out amidst the remains of the void, and the air in his threshold spread the ash outward.
But her comment had him thinking, and knowing there were some who wouldn’t be attending the upcoming gathering – whether or not that’d be to their benefit wouldn’t truly be clear. There’d likely be roles designated and plots unfurled, and he didn’t want to leave the Harpy out of the loop if she’d be interested in striving just as much as everyone else – because as Safrin had said, one portion dealt solely in fortune and luck. If enough of them strived…he sighed, head tilting to study her. “I did find out from Safrin there are ways to gain back the regions lost to them,” his jawline jutting out amidst the remains of the void, and the air in his threshold spread the ash outward.
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