I've done nothing wrong
Except for all the atrocities
Except for all the atrocities
Her eyes narrowed, incredibly uncertain of how to react in this regard. There were a myriad of different ways – hostility, warmth, delight, irritation – and all of them parsed through in a mixture of disbelief, bewilderment, and maybe annoyance beyond the hurt measures of those disappeared and gone. The Honeybee had always been the type of individual to mourn quietly and with little emotion; pushing things aside with a flash and flare and nothing else. Moving on. That’s how she’d survived.
And when friends kept dissipating into the wind and air? “Thought you were dead,” she announced, nose wrinkling, fingers restlessly tapping against the bar. “You missed a lot.” And what would it be like, to simply meander and poof and turn into vapor and have no consequence for it? Gods.
Mulish and uncertain, she almost asked her what the hell she’d been doing in the Oerwoud while a war waged and people died, and wouldn’t it be nice to avoid everything altogether? The demigod didn’t have much use for Aurelia’s tears, but she could look away for a moment, gather whatever wasn’t anger and fury and parse through explanations with Flora. “Aurelia used to work for Jack on the Ark with us. First mate and everything.”
And when friends kept dissipating into the wind and air? “Thought you were dead,” she announced, nose wrinkling, fingers restlessly tapping against the bar. “You missed a lot.” And what would it be like, to simply meander and poof and turn into vapor and have no consequence for it? Gods.
Mulish and uncertain, she almost asked her what the hell she’d been doing in the Oerwoud while a war waged and people died, and wouldn’t it be nice to avoid everything altogether? The demigod didn’t have much use for Aurelia’s tears, but she could look away for a moment, gather whatever wasn’t anger and fury and parse through explanations with Flora. “Aurelia used to work for Jack on the Ark with us. First mate and everything.”
the honeybee
Besides that
I'm innocent
I'm innocent
