DEIMOS
ache first, but then let the cuts close
spit out the blood
spit out the blood
The name was unequally unfamiliar; not something carried on the winds or in parchment. That scarcely mattered though – for there were always a great deal of people involved in their daily lives, and not aiming to endeavor and dig themselves into the colossal trials and tribulations surrounding Caido.
The reactions thereafter though, including never having shaken another’s hand, or the inquiry, almost made him laugh. He stifled it with a sharp intake of breath, then deftly followed through on the greeting, head tilting vaguely. Instead of answering her question directly, because it was clear she didn’t know who he was, he gave a brief smile, so only one corner of his mouth lifted. “Why not?” Not only did it familiarize him and many others with one another, but it also provided him with networks of information – if someone deigned to be a threat to his region, if someone was merely passing through and wanted more sagacity and experience in the wintry world…his machinations could conjure multitudes and platitudes.
Whether or not it unnerved her mattered little to him – he had no intentions of driving her out. Not when she was simply smithing and selling. “What brings you here?”
The reactions thereafter though, including never having shaken another’s hand, or the inquiry, almost made him laugh. He stifled it with a sharp intake of breath, then deftly followed through on the greeting, head tilting vaguely. Instead of answering her question directly, because it was clear she didn’t know who he was, he gave a brief smile, so only one corner of his mouth lifted. “Why not?” Not only did it familiarize him and many others with one another, but it also provided him with networks of information – if someone deigned to be a threat to his region, if someone was merely passing through and wanted more sagacity and experience in the wintry world…his machinations could conjure multitudes and platitudes.
Whether or not it unnerved her mattered little to him – he had no intentions of driving her out. Not when she was simply smithing and selling. “What brings you here?”
watch your body pull itself back together
then let your soul do the same
then let your soul do the same
