Safrin
Safrin laughs, and it’s not cruel, not quite, but it gleams with the sharp edge of ice on a moonless tide—too cold, too still, too clean. "Oh, darling boy. I’m not here to help you fix your blunders." The stars around her burn a touch brighter, silvery white and biting. "I’m here for my daughter."
Her head tilts, too elegant to be mocking, though everything in her gaze says I see through you. I've heard every traitorous thought in your head. "You think I don’t know what Caly wants? I know the clench of her heart down to the breath she didn’t take, the moment you chose another before her the night you met. I know the sting felt at her birthday party better than you ever will. What she wants," Safrin says, stepping close enough for her starlight to make the shimmer in the Viniq bottle dance, "is to never feel like a second choice again."
Her voice lowers, velvet-wrapped venom. "Especially not to a girl you slept with after her, and are now determined to keep in constant contact with by visiting the god of sex." She lets the silence stretch long enough to become a wound, then offers him a smile: cold and dazzling and unkind. "Another promise you're apparently determined to keep. But yes. Go on, build something ‘real,’ " she murmurs, voice like frost winding up his spine. "Alone, just as you say. If only you'd been so careful with your promises from the beginning, you'd not be here now."
Straightening, she turns from him without another word, her light already starting to dissolve into the dusk. "Leave me out of this, Kaisel. I won't lend you my name in some bid to win back my daughter’s favour when you still have other stars in your sky that you're in no hurry to remove."
Then, like a breath between waves, she’s gone.
Kaisel's quest has been revoked!
~FIN
Her head tilts, too elegant to be mocking, though everything in her gaze says I see through you. I've heard every traitorous thought in your head. "You think I don’t know what Caly wants? I know the clench of her heart down to the breath she didn’t take, the moment you chose another before her the night you met. I know the sting felt at her birthday party better than you ever will. What she wants," Safrin says, stepping close enough for her starlight to make the shimmer in the Viniq bottle dance, "is to never feel like a second choice again."
Her voice lowers, velvet-wrapped venom. "Especially not to a girl you slept with after her, and are now determined to keep in constant contact with by visiting the god of sex." She lets the silence stretch long enough to become a wound, then offers him a smile: cold and dazzling and unkind. "Another promise you're apparently determined to keep. But yes. Go on, build something ‘real,’ " she murmurs, voice like frost winding up his spine. "Alone, just as you say. If only you'd been so careful with your promises from the beginning, you'd not be here now."
Straightening, she turns from him without another word, her light already starting to dissolve into the dusk. "Leave me out of this, Kaisel. I won't lend you my name in some bid to win back my daughter’s favour when you still have other stars in your sky that you're in no hurry to remove."
Then, like a breath between waves, she’s gone.
Kaisel's quest has been revoked!
~FIN
