if you try and chase the sun you're never gonna catch it
Vesper moves ahead of Colt as they reach the summit, the hush around them thickening. The air feels different here—not just quiet, but expectant, like the whole hillside is holding its breath.
He approaches the shrine without hesitation, but not without respect.
Long slender and ringed fingers reach out and brush across the surface of the altar with uncharacteristic care. It’s not the swift, indifferent flick of someone clearing a bar top. It’s reverent. Slow. Like wiping sleep from the face of something holy. Each sweep sends a small cascade of dust scattering into the air, sparkling briefly in the slanted light like the remnants of a vanished star. Beneath it, the stone is polished smooth, worn by wind and worship both.
He doesn’t kneel, but he stands straighter, taller. The usual crooked grin is tempered now, replaced with something quieter, older. There’s always something watchful in him—sharp as a blade tucked behind a smile—but here, it shifts. The shadows coiled at his feet still, and his features soften just enough to hint that he’s not just speaking to a goddess.
Once the altar’s clear, he clears his throat softly and tilts his chin upward, gaze fixed on some point above them where the mist thins into sky. "Hey ma," he says, quiet but sure. The words land easy in the silence. "Didn't bring an offerin' as I wasn't plannin' on coming to you all the way out here, but—" He gestures over his shoulder with a lazy roll of his hand, voice curling into something drier. "I did bring somethin' awful pretty."
Vesper has completed the quest given to him in thread shadows from the starlight
1. Complete a training thread using his shadows [SE][Training] and it makes me wanna take a back road
2. Use his shadows to make something easier mittens off Used his shadows to make shoving snow into Iskra's mouth easier.
3. Use his shadows to make something harder [SE] lickety-split Used his shadows to make walking harder for someone by wrapping them around their ankles
4. Go somewhere where there are hardly any shadows and see how it affects things. you've got to stay pretty while you can Went into the Fingers at midnight
He approaches the shrine without hesitation, but not without respect.
Long slender and ringed fingers reach out and brush across the surface of the altar with uncharacteristic care. It’s not the swift, indifferent flick of someone clearing a bar top. It’s reverent. Slow. Like wiping sleep from the face of something holy. Each sweep sends a small cascade of dust scattering into the air, sparkling briefly in the slanted light like the remnants of a vanished star. Beneath it, the stone is polished smooth, worn by wind and worship both.
He doesn’t kneel, but he stands straighter, taller. The usual crooked grin is tempered now, replaced with something quieter, older. There’s always something watchful in him—sharp as a blade tucked behind a smile—but here, it shifts. The shadows coiled at his feet still, and his features soften just enough to hint that he’s not just speaking to a goddess.
Once the altar’s clear, he clears his throat softly and tilts his chin upward, gaze fixed on some point above them where the mist thins into sky. "Hey ma," he says, quiet but sure. The words land easy in the silence. "Didn't bring an offerin' as I wasn't plannin' on coming to you all the way out here, but—" He gestures over his shoulder with a lazy roll of his hand, voice curling into something drier. "I did bring somethin' awful pretty."
Vesper has completed the quest given to him in thread shadows from the starlight
1. Complete a training thread using his shadows [SE][Training] and it makes me wanna take a back road
2. Use his shadows to make something easier mittens off Used his shadows to make shoving snow into Iskra's mouth easier.
3. Use his shadows to make something harder [SE] lickety-split Used his shadows to make walking harder for someone by wrapping them around their ankles
4. Go somewhere where there are hardly any shadows and see how it affects things. you've got to stay pretty while you can Went into the Fingers at midnight
And now it's turning out to be the worst of my bad habits
☆ has a pale star tattoo beneath his left eye, and freckle-sized constellations move across his skin
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
