[RA] corners of the world

Evie

Maybe you find yourself instead of losing your hope
like an old love note under the floorboards

Though her attention is split between husband and son, Evie juggles the balance of it artfully, accustomed to finding yet more hands to offer for the sake of affection. It was how their family had grown to the size it currently was. She’d never dreamed of managing to so thoroughly untangle herself from the ropes of her upbringing as to be able to live like this. Incandescently happy even in the midst of such terrors. Yet here she is, and she won’t allow a lack of arms and hands to keep her from relishing in every touch and shared piece of affection. Even if she is surely smearing faint bits of soil across both of her boys.

So, to see her husband’s face fall even slightly is enough to rouse her waning energy into something more pointed. Her fingertips continue to playfully nip back at Erebos’ as if imitating teeth, warding them in a wily chase to give herself time to pour over what Deimos has turned her way. 

Her heart drops to her feet, skin pebbling all over as she reads. Many knee jerk emotions kick through her chest in scattered directions but none of them find purchase, skittering away like stones on a frozen lake. The Evergreen doesn’t respond for some time. Her eyes restlessly rove the image and skim over words aimlessly while she thinks. Breathing in slowly until her lungs ache with fullness, Evie finally turns her eyes to Deimos. Her ensuing exhale is shaky. Her words are not. “You did the right thing. And I’m so sorry you had to at all.” If she did not believe so thoroughly in the good he does for their people, for Caido, she would regret more deeply his mantling of this role. She still does, if only because she will never rest easy seeing him so heavy-shouldered with the weight of protecting so many people. And though he sits before her physically unharmed, she still asks, “Are you okay?” Or at least as okay as he can be.

don’t waste precious moments looking down on yourself
you're a wildfire - burn bright, burn bright