There was no appropriate ledger, tone, musings, or sagacity for when the dead returned – nor when the hauntings melded into prior circumstances of lacerations and age-old wounds. So though they looked to one another for guidance, both were just as equally lost. He took a long, steady breath as he studied her features, caught the fractures, and tried not to flinch at the ‘inevitability’. He could have argued that with motions of immortality and the way demigods found methods to return, time and time again; but it scarcely mattered, when the truth was blunt and right before them.
In their quiet huddle, he swallowed down the bile and reached across her cheeks, fingers gently removing the tears gathering by her eyes. “All right,” as an echo of their shared confusion and bewilderment, opting to build and fracture and try, rather than surround them in walls and fortifications. Gods, it was tempting though, to perhaps never know, to not saunter near, to leave it as it was, as it had been. Sojourns taken, journeys at ends, neither forgotten nor obliterated, and somehow consigned to another’s realm regardless. Grounding the lines for them, and tilting his head so Evie might be hidden from view while they contemplated the eventuality, his gaze steadied, forbearing as ever. “Do you want to?” To know? To understand?
In their quiet huddle, he swallowed down the bile and reached across her cheeks, fingers gently removing the tears gathering by her eyes. “All right,” as an echo of their shared confusion and bewilderment, opting to build and fracture and try, rather than surround them in walls and fortifications. Gods, it was tempting though, to perhaps never know, to not saunter near, to leave it as it was, as it had been. Sojourns taken, journeys at ends, neither forgotten nor obliterated, and somehow consigned to another’s realm regardless. Grounding the lines for them, and tilting his head so Evie might be hidden from view while they contemplated the eventuality, his gaze steadied, forbearing as ever. “Do you want to?” To know? To understand?
deimos
Never let them drain the river of your soul
