// where your body hears the words of the sun //
Placing the seed gently into the dirt, she began to softly feed the soil back into the open space, listening all the while. “You know you’re always welcome there,” and she grinned in return, content to see his sunnier disposition flare back into existence.
The next insinuation gave her pause though, so her eyes, now worried and a bit dismayed, turned back to Koa. “Wouldn’t that look more suspicious? If I’d taken a stand to not be a part of her council?” The Caretaker had already strived to prove and make her point – she wouldn’t align herself with Dahlia, or be a pawn in those maneuvers. And perhaps she was a tad hurt that Koa would even think to have her go wind around in those machinations, after judging Anju so harshly for it, and being willing to put the Caretaker in such a dangerous position. She wouldn’t say any of it, of course, but the sudden look of dismay might’ve uttered enough.
Or Mittens’ adhering growl and imminent hovering over her shoulder.
The next insinuation gave her pause though, so her eyes, now worried and a bit dismayed, turned back to Koa. “Wouldn’t that look more suspicious? If I’d taken a stand to not be a part of her council?” The Caretaker had already strived to prove and make her point – she wouldn’t align herself with Dahlia, or be a pawn in those maneuvers. And perhaps she was a tad hurt that Koa would even think to have her go wind around in those machinations, after judging Anju so harshly for it, and being willing to put the Caretaker in such a dangerous position. She wouldn’t say any of it, of course, but the sudden look of dismay might’ve uttered enough.
Or Mittens’ adhering growl and imminent hovering over her shoulder.
Lena
// spoken in the voices of trees //
