Every confession made, promise laid down at your bedside
The warmth she left behind did not fade with distance. It remained, quiet and steady, threaded through him. It was not a shield against the world, not a promise that hardship would cease, but proof that the emptiness he had carried for so long was no longer the only thing waiting for him when the quiet came.
His breath left him in a slow, steady exhale. The attuned bond hummed softly with gratitude he could not compress into speech. It was raw, something relieved, something fiercely loyal.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever stop fearing that.” He admitted, th honesty feeling solidifying like the steadiness of her touch. ”But I will try.” Glacier eyes lifted again, steadying on her though he was now not untouched by emotion, but no longer overwhelmed. ”And I will remember what you said.”
Silence stretched comfortably between them before a quieter uncertainty surfaced. Within him something shifted and he felt the groaning in his soul like the ice of the Sea of Glass. Noah shifted his weight, easing himself into the vulnerability before her, laying a piece of him raw in a way that invited her in to every part of him.
”There is something else I have wondered since I saw you last.” His voice remained respectful, careful not to frame it as entitlement. ”When I became Attuned again, I made peace with much of what life looked like for me. Vi told me to live. But I haven’t reconciled all of it. I lost the healing that once came with Vi’s touch.” His gaze flicked briefly toward the shrine, then back to her. ”While I can no longer hold the same kind of magic as I could before, I was wondering if I had some of it still within me through you — a unicorn shift.”
A small pause followed, even as he let his eyes on Safrin and felt his heart beginning to hammer within his chest. “If it is something worthy of seeking, if that is truly inside me somewhere, would you guide me toward that path?”
His breath left him in a slow, steady exhale. The attuned bond hummed softly with gratitude he could not compress into speech. It was raw, something relieved, something fiercely loyal.
“I don’t know if I’ll ever stop fearing that.” He admitted, th honesty feeling solidifying like the steadiness of her touch. ”But I will try.” Glacier eyes lifted again, steadying on her though he was now not untouched by emotion, but no longer overwhelmed. ”And I will remember what you said.”
Silence stretched comfortably between them before a quieter uncertainty surfaced. Within him something shifted and he felt the groaning in his soul like the ice of the Sea of Glass. Noah shifted his weight, easing himself into the vulnerability before her, laying a piece of him raw in a way that invited her in to every part of him.
”There is something else I have wondered since I saw you last.” His voice remained respectful, careful not to frame it as entitlement. ”When I became Attuned again, I made peace with much of what life looked like for me. Vi told me to live. But I haven’t reconciled all of it. I lost the healing that once came with Vi’s touch.” His gaze flicked briefly toward the shrine, then back to her. ”While I can no longer hold the same kind of magic as I could before, I was wondering if I had some of it still within me through you — a unicorn shift.”
A small pause followed, even as he let his eyes on Safrin and felt his heart beginning to hammer within his chest. “If it is something worthy of seeking, if that is truly inside me somewhere, would you guide me toward that path?”
Noah
Guiding a broken heart through the edge of dark
