Sohalia
This is a gift, it comes with a price
Who is the lamb and who is the knife?
Who is the lamb and who is the knife?
Flora's sob clawed at Soh's own heart, and she swallowed a lump in her throat at the raw, aching sound even as she pulled her friend closer. She didn't even have any wise words of wisdom, or even offerings of encouragement. Either Flora would get over Jack or she wouldn't - but in the meantime, Soh could understand why she would want to try to give Kaisel a chance. Even if it didn't seem particularly fair to the younger man, who was Soh to judge? Had she not herself lived the crime of loving two people too much to make good decisions?
And she might have scrambled for something to say, even if it was only I see you, I hear you, I understand you - but then Flora was sniffling, straightening, turning the conversation back onto Soh. She wondered, briefly, if the habit was a defense mechanism, something that Flora could use any time things got too deep or too personal or too painful to distract herself from her own problems. And she wondered, too, if this was the time that she should press for more rather than allowing Flora to so resolutely leave her own struggles behind.
"Oh, well, yeah -" she said, biting her lip as she wavered. In the end, though, she latched onto the flicker of hope in Flora's voice and let the Doubletake's love life go - for now. "I'm not going to be Stormbreak's Heart," she announced, her voice matter-of-fact, if a little too smooth with how nonchalant she tried to be about it. "I talked with Zavien, and he's going to lead in my place. I'll still serve on his council, but..." She shrugged, glancing at Flora with something that looked a little like guilt. "I just... when it came down to it, I couldn't... I wasn't in the right place to try again. Not after everything that's happened."
And she might have scrambled for something to say, even if it was only I see you, I hear you, I understand you - but then Flora was sniffling, straightening, turning the conversation back onto Soh. She wondered, briefly, if the habit was a defense mechanism, something that Flora could use any time things got too deep or too personal or too painful to distract herself from her own problems. And she wondered, too, if this was the time that she should press for more rather than allowing Flora to so resolutely leave her own struggles behind.
"Oh, well, yeah -" she said, biting her lip as she wavered. In the end, though, she latched onto the flicker of hope in Flora's voice and let the Doubletake's love life go - for now. "I'm not going to be Stormbreak's Heart," she announced, her voice matter-of-fact, if a little too smooth with how nonchalant she tried to be about it. "I talked with Zavien, and he's going to lead in my place. I'll still serve on his council, but..." She shrugged, glancing at Flora with something that looked a little like guilt. "I just... when it came down to it, I couldn't... I wasn't in the right place to try again. Not after everything that's happened."
Midas is king and he holds me so tight
And turns me to gold in the sunlight
And turns me to gold in the sunlight
Minor powerplay allowed without permission.
Feel free to use force/magic on Sohalia.
Feel free to use force/magic on Sohalia.
