EVIE
there ain't no doubt in no ones mind
This ensuing laugh is quieter, more fond. “I think we can always stand to make new rituals, don’t you?” Anything that can sow these positive feelings throughout their lives, tiny seeds that grow a reliable network of roots below the surface.There’s too much to mull over in the moment to immediately reach to help him in his own ministrations, but she turns eventually to guide his hands away from his dark hair to replace them with her own. Moving close, close enough that their foreheads nearly touch, as she gently massages her fingertips into his scalp. “That’s all we can do - wait and see. Our own small efforts aside.” Not to carry the burden entirely upon their shoulders, but to still make some small, active effort in the name of sincerity and the holding of their word.
Pressing an idle kiss to his forehead as he relieves them both of the topic, Evie shakes her head with a wry, helpless smile. “Truly nothing to report. I’m a bit restless - Flowerbirth always makes me that way. But I’m trying to work through it.” To not burden him with aimless, abstract thoughts and desires until they have coalesced into something actionable.
that love's the finest thing around
