// I got this feeling, yeah, you know where I'm losing all control //
Vesper can feel the way her thoughts brush up against the shape of his sisters, lingering in the warmth between the words like someone pressing a thumb into a bruise just to see if it’s real. There’s something hollow in it, an ache he doesn’t dig into but can’t quite ignore. He wonders if anyone’s ever loved her like that—steadfast and lyric, loud in the quiet ways. If they have, they were probably too goddamn bumbfucked and inarticulate to say so. And based on the way she’d punched straight through his shadows at the memory of her ex-husband back in the marketplace, he doubts it.
So when she says trouble runs in the family, he just nods once and shrugs, the motion easy, like it doesn’t land a little heavy in his chest.
At her next line, his mouth quirks faintly. "Your gut’s had nothin’ but dried fruit, meat leather, and half a flask of sun-warmed water for three days straight," he drawls, brushing a hand through a curtain of vines. "Wouldn’t listen too closely to what it’s sayin’ right now."
His shadows drift along the path behind them like lazy scouts, testing the heat and motion in the underbrush. After a moment, he glances sidelong toward her. "You got anyone back on that ranch of yours? Family?" A pause, measured. "Or is it just you out there?"
So when she says trouble runs in the family, he just nods once and shrugs, the motion easy, like it doesn’t land a little heavy in his chest.
At her next line, his mouth quirks faintly. "Your gut’s had nothin’ but dried fruit, meat leather, and half a flask of sun-warmed water for three days straight," he drawls, brushing a hand through a curtain of vines. "Wouldn’t listen too closely to what it’s sayin’ right now."
His shadows drift along the path behind them like lazy scouts, testing the heat and motion in the underbrush. After a moment, he glances sidelong toward her. "You got anyone back on that ranch of yours? Family?" A pause, measured. "Or is it just you out there?"
Vesper
//Go ahead and throw your stones, 'cause there's magic in my bones //
☆ 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.
