// to the green lessons //
She nodded at his initial inclinations, unaware he’d be able to hear her through the shared bond, as she drifted along thermals of warm air and the various reaches of crag. Her eyes scanned as she hovered and moved, wings hastening greater heights or lower dominions, but in the end there were no outlets of surprise hues or petals blossoming from the rock faces.
So eventually she landed. Rather than giving into despair like last time, for which she still felt guilty at Zavien’s expense, she stifled all that disappointment down into her chest. It could lodge there for the time being, with all her other culpable, ashamed notions towards the void and the Feverlands specifically, while she shifted back. “I didn’t see anything,” she offered back, the smile gone. “I’m going to try over here,” to which she pointed at a smaller pool, a little more difficult to see when shrouded in shadow. “But then otherwise we’re probably out of luck.”
So eventually she landed. Rather than giving into despair like last time, for which she still felt guilty at Zavien’s expense, she stifled all that disappointment down into her chest. It could lodge there for the time being, with all her other culpable, ashamed notions towards the void and the Feverlands specifically, while she shifted back. “I didn’t see anything,” she offered back, the smile gone. “I’m going to try over here,” to which she pointed at a smaller pool, a little more difficult to see when shrouded in shadow. “But then otherwise we’re probably out of luck.”
Lena
// of soft, simple quiet beneath the sun //
