if you try and chase the sun you're never gonna catch it
Vesper answers the question with another easy lift of his shoulders. "They both deal in deception," he says mildly. "Bet Safrin could put a kind of black hole around it. Everything still there, just...unreachable behind all the black." The snort that follows is quiet, dry. "Guess I oughta be takin’ a page outta your book then," he adds, tone pitched somewhere between humour and resignation, as if conceding that some storms really are better endured than dissected or thrown into space.
The trees finally part, branches loosening their grip over the trail and the riverbank opens up ahead of them in a spill of darker earth and glistening water. The air shifts immediately—cooler, heavier, threaded with the unmistakable tang of memory mud—and Vesper exhales without quite meaning to, a soft sound of relief slipping past his composure. For once, the Greatwood hasn’t decided to be clever at his expense.
He gestures with a brief tilt of his chin toward the slick stretch of mud gathered along the bank, brows lifting as pale eyes slide back to Jack. "What d’you need the mud for?"
The trees finally part, branches loosening their grip over the trail and the riverbank opens up ahead of them in a spill of darker earth and glistening water. The air shifts immediately—cooler, heavier, threaded with the unmistakable tang of memory mud—and Vesper exhales without quite meaning to, a soft sound of relief slipping past his composure. For once, the Greatwood hasn’t decided to be clever at his expense.
He gestures with a brief tilt of his chin toward the slick stretch of mud gathered along the bank, brows lifting as pale eyes slide back to Jack. "What d’you need the mud for?"
And now it's turning out to be the worst of my bad habits
☆ has a pale star tattoo beneath his left eye, and freckle-sized constellations move across his skin
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
☽ hair changes from bleached blonde to brown
☆ telepathic: Sunlit Shadows | The user can read the surface thoughts and emotions of those within a 60ft radius. Control is excellent. Note: "Thoughts and emotions" include anything written in a character's narration in a post.
