to be lit up from within
vein by vein
She could feel his eyes on her, but she wouldn’t quite dare to pull her gaze back to him, save for when he gave an agreement and didn’t ask any further. Thinking she’d gotten away with it for free, she quietly ‘huh’ed to herself, believing she’d scored a win (after all, that’d been way easier than she’d come up with on her way over here). Besides, Ru’s disappearance was far more of a distraction, and her eyes narrowed, more confused than ever as more information spilled forth. Ru and ‘project’ could mean much of anything, though perhaps the subject didn’t really matter. It was the lack of coming home, not being able to be found or channeled, and then his quiet admission that had her jaw clenching. She’d stood up for the Valkyrie’s end many, many times before, especially when it had come to some harsher outlines with their breakups and makeups in the past, and with everything going on, had figured they’d both finally settled into something. She shook her head, not grabbing another bite at present, mulishly clambering her way through this – because, it seemed, he needed some of her support. “Remind me to tell you about my channeling adventures,” she muttered instead, more as a means of deterring the mood from getting rampantly morose. “But I think it’s fair for you to be a bit of both.” For the lack of explanation, for the strangeness of it all; both emotions burned against her too.
She tapped her chin, lifting her gaze away from him and back towards the sky. “Could she be trapped or caught somewhere? Though that’d be strange that she couldn’t -,” her nose wrinkled again. “I guess…what do you want to do?”
to be the sun
MELITA
