Lovedrunk on cheap wine

Hotaru

So many people will ask you to be beautiful and urgent
to discover what you cannot have and desire it

It's news she wouldn't want to hear from anyone else. She doesn't have to hide her own reactions in his arms, nor throttle the swell of her feelings any more than the vaguest restraint necessary to not drown him. Just as he does, his revelation - whatever it might be - like distant fireworks in her own head. There is a chill that could be anything from trepidation to something darker, but it's not something she wants to face head on anyway, and the warmth that rushes in after it is a blinder she is happy to lean into just as she does into his chest.

Their walk is forgotten, but even this news can't take away the feeling of rightness in the world that builds within her at being back by his side. Then we have some idea of a course forward, is the mental equivalent of a murmur as her eyes open, head lolling to rest her cheek on his chest as she looks out into the dappled woods. We've worked greater miracles on less. With her daughter in the balance there is no other option in her eyes.

Squeezing her arms around him, she lifts her head with a bracing breath that helps buoy her faint smile up onto her face. "One step after another, then. And I do mean literally - let's keep walking." Maybe the metaphor will follow if they do and they'll find their way out of the woods in more ways than one.

- Fin

Don’t desire. Don’t despair.
Rain is only rain in mid-air