Lena
// what is to give light must endure burning //
Time wasn’t something she’d been given and granted at this rate, and between the notice of detrimental, harrowing leagues, and all manner of sedition unplanned (at least, upon her own life), she didn’t have much else to say. She’d built up her entire life for the Celestine – an ambitious, oriented goal that had her living every day to her fullest and grateful for the opportunity extended to her – and she wasn’t going to toss that way. Dangerous or not, Dahlia wasn’t going to pry her out of those gardens and away from those animals, nor was she going to be frightened out of her home because some individuals wanted to take over, fester, and bleed it dry.
But that didn’t do her much good when Zavien had been mortally wounded in a fight against said void; even if it hadn’t been directly in the hands of the Reaper.
And she was trying, desperately, to forge all of that within her brain in some logical sense, and maybe when her lungs stopped heaving and things felt less dizzying, she could pry it into words conveyed with meaning and substance. She took another sip of her water, glancing up at him again, unaware that he was thinking of everything crashing down around them - Lena had done no such thing. She just didn’t want to be ejected from her entire livelihood because of unsavory leadership. “I just need time to process all of this,” she admitted, honestly, fingers placed against her temple. “I’m not driving you away – you’ve just told me you -,” she didn’t finish it this interval, biting back another horde of something she didn’t want to name. “And then you say we have to flee. But I can’t just go, Zavien, I have responsibilities here.”
But that didn’t do her much good when Zavien had been mortally wounded in a fight against said void; even if it hadn’t been directly in the hands of the Reaper.
And she was trying, desperately, to forge all of that within her brain in some logical sense, and maybe when her lungs stopped heaving and things felt less dizzying, she could pry it into words conveyed with meaning and substance. She took another sip of her water, glancing up at him again, unaware that he was thinking of everything crashing down around them - Lena had done no such thing. She just didn’t want to be ejected from her entire livelihood because of unsavory leadership. “I just need time to process all of this,” she admitted, honestly, fingers placed against her temple. “I’m not driving you away – you’ve just told me you -,” she didn’t finish it this interval, biting back another horde of something she didn’t want to name. “And then you say we have to flee. But I can’t just go, Zavien, I have responsibilities here.”
