Soh heard her name a moment before arms engulfed her, wrapping around her in a sudden rush of sea salt and lilac. She burrowed her face instinctively into Flora’s shoulder, reaching to wrap her in a tight hug, clinging like the Doubletake might be the very last tether holding her to the earth. For a moment, time stood still, weeks’ worth of tension forgotten, and Soh was able to take the first deep breath she had taken in a month.
Then Flora pulled back, hands sliding to cup her cheeks, and it all came crashing back down again.
She wasn’t okay, it was true - but she also wasn’t falling apart. The time for that had come and gone, and now she’d accepted the cold reality of the situation in which she found herself. Stormbreak was gone - perhaps already destroyed - and there was nothing that she nor anyone else could do to change that. It wasn’t the past or even the present that she carried so heavily now. No, it was the future, and all the uncertainty that came with it.
”I think we got everyone out,” she croaked, voice dull and raspy from overuse. ”When the last skyship was gone, Zavien and Koa channeled Safrin, and she made sure that the city was empty and took the three of us, too. I came here once I made sure everyone was settled. I don’t… have you heard anything about it falling yet?”
Then Flora pulled back, hands sliding to cup her cheeks, and it all came crashing back down again.
She wasn’t okay, it was true - but she also wasn’t falling apart. The time for that had come and gone, and now she’d accepted the cold reality of the situation in which she found herself. Stormbreak was gone - perhaps already destroyed - and there was nothing that she nor anyone else could do to change that. It wasn’t the past or even the present that she carried so heavily now. No, it was the future, and all the uncertainty that came with it.
”I think we got everyone out,” she croaked, voice dull and raspy from overuse. ”When the last skyship was gone, Zavien and Koa channeled Safrin, and she made sure that the city was empty and took the three of us, too. I came here once I made sure everyone was settled. I don’t… have you heard anything about it falling yet?”
When memories fade we've got each other
When time and confusion collide
When time and confusion collide
Sohalia
Minor powerplay allowed without permission.
Feel free to use force/magic on Sohalia.
Feel free to use force/magic on Sohalia.
