You woke a fire inside of me
It seemed like a normal conversation, to someone who hadn't heard the name he dropped, who didn't know its significance. Just a mistaken identity, oops, haha my bad – except Liam wasn't laughing, and the look in his eyes as he turned to run from this Jessie person was so haunted that Maea felt knots tighten in her gut, worry erasing the smile that played on her lips a second earlier. Stepping nimbly aside to avoid being knocked over by her lover, she cast a bewildered look at Sohalia - what had she missed? - and hastily pushed her basket of food at Zavien. "Hold this for me, will you?"
Whirling around she took off after Liam, darting past revelers and dancers, foodstalls and water fountains and narrowly avoided knocking over a child nibbling on a lollypop before she was vlose enough to reach for the soldier's sleeve. "Liam, wait! What's wrong?" Hauling on his arm to make him stop, Maea shook the pale tangles of her hair out of her eyes and nearly broke her neck trying to catch his gaze. Was he angry, sad, upset - what in Dygra's name had that girl done to elicit this kind of reaction?
Whirling around she took off after Liam, darting past revelers and dancers, foodstalls and water fountains and narrowly avoided knocking over a child nibbling on a lollypop before she was vlose enough to reach for the soldier's sleeve. "Liam, wait! What's wrong?" Hauling on his arm to make him stop, Maea shook the pale tangles of her hair out of her eyes and nearly broke her neck trying to catch his gaze. Was he angry, sad, upset - what in Dygra's name had that girl done to elicit this kind of reaction?
Maea
