Your past and mine are parallel lines
He never apologized.
Soh didn't need the clarification, but she thought that maybe Zavien had needed to say it all the same. She watched him, a worried contrition on her face, as though this was somehow something that she could have prevented, if only she had tried hard enough. If only she had known what she knew now then, she could have prevented this hurt, this heartache, from settling into what should have been a happy evening for them.
Zavien pulled her into a tight hug, and she gripped him just as tightly, burying her face into his neck and breathing him in. "I'm so sorry," she said, the murmur muffled by the press of her lips against his shirt. She wished she knew Kaisel better, wished that she could say he wouldn't have followed through on his threat, that he'd just been a hotheaded young man, an idiot in love, but none of that felt true anymore, if it ever had been to start with.
Had he always been cruel and vindictive, or had it started after their original argument? Was it just something he held against Zavien, or was it possible that, someday, Flora would somehow be affected? Or was she already, given that there seemed to be little likelihood of repairing what Kaisel had broken, either between he and Soh or between he and Zavien? How was she supposed to navigate disliking her best friend's husband?
Because she wasn't sure there was any going back now, not for her. If Kaisel had insulted her, perhaps it would have been different, but to land such devastating blows against someone she loved so deeply... that was something that Soh didn't know if she would ever be able to forgive.
Soh didn't need the clarification, but she thought that maybe Zavien had needed to say it all the same. She watched him, a worried contrition on her face, as though this was somehow something that she could have prevented, if only she had tried hard enough. If only she had known what she knew now then, she could have prevented this hurt, this heartache, from settling into what should have been a happy evening for them.
Zavien pulled her into a tight hug, and she gripped him just as tightly, burying her face into his neck and breathing him in. "I'm so sorry," she said, the murmur muffled by the press of her lips against his shirt. She wished she knew Kaisel better, wished that she could say he wouldn't have followed through on his threat, that he'd just been a hotheaded young man, an idiot in love, but none of that felt true anymore, if it ever had been to start with.
Had he always been cruel and vindictive, or had it started after their original argument? Was it just something he held against Zavien, or was it possible that, someday, Flora would somehow be affected? Or was she already, given that there seemed to be little likelihood of repairing what Kaisel had broken, either between he and Soh or between he and Zavien? How was she supposed to navigate disliking her best friend's husband?
Because she wasn't sure there was any going back now, not for her. If Kaisel had insulted her, perhaps it would have been different, but to land such devastating blows against someone she loved so deeply... that was something that Soh didn't know if she would ever be able to forgive.
Stars all aligned and they intertwined
Minor powerplay allowed without permission.
Feel free to use force/magic on Sohalia.
Feel free to use force/magic on Sohalia.
