suddenly i'm spinning like a ceiling fan, around and 'round we go
Safrin appears in a brilliant show of silver blooming starlight, reflected on the snow and warming her chest as her smile blooms only brighter to see her mother stand before them. “We’re always thinkin’ of you.” Caly hums brightly, the offerings seen and glittering under their mother’s attention. But then, she’s moving toward them to gather them in her arms and she nestles in, wrapping her arms tight around Safrin just as much as the goddess embraces them.
She smells like the stars and ozone and everything from their real home that the attuned misses, and her eyes shut gently with the press of the kiss to her forehead before they’re forced to withdraw. Close enough that the attuned doesn’t mind the distance, at least, snickering slightly to hear her mother explain that Vesper was never meant to be on his own – something she’d had an idea of deep in her heart but never quite fully expressed. As for the Sunbeam, though, the pride that oozes from Calypso is unmatched, her smile cheshire and coy and so very glad that the news of it managed to reach Safrin’s ear.
Then, she watches as her bracelet begins to glimmer and fill with starlight, beaming to feel it buzz through the air in a way that proves to her its expanded the range. And she awaits the same for her sister’s twin bracelet, watching and waiting before their mother grows quite still and her gaze snaps up to her sister’s face, then to her mother’s, still in Safrin’s close proximity and range as her sister steps away, the disappointment clear and palpable between them even if there’s no attuned bond yet while she’s not shifted to prove to her that Nova’s upset. “Hey, you can try again, right mom?” Looking up at her mother she hesitates for a brief moment, like it’s a question that could be answered with a redo. “It’s gonna be okay, Nova.” She can understand the bit of shame that bleeds into her sister, and in any other instance she’d be intensely protective over her sister, but when the disappointment and cause of the upset is their mother, the attuned finds herself torn.
Is it a lesson for Nova to learn, to redo and understand on her own? Or is it something she should reach out to help with? She’s unsure, balancing on that edge between both of them.
She smells like the stars and ozone and everything from their real home that the attuned misses, and her eyes shut gently with the press of the kiss to her forehead before they’re forced to withdraw. Close enough that the attuned doesn’t mind the distance, at least, snickering slightly to hear her mother explain that Vesper was never meant to be on his own – something she’d had an idea of deep in her heart but never quite fully expressed. As for the Sunbeam, though, the pride that oozes from Calypso is unmatched, her smile cheshire and coy and so very glad that the news of it managed to reach Safrin’s ear.
Then, she watches as her bracelet begins to glimmer and fill with starlight, beaming to feel it buzz through the air in a way that proves to her its expanded the range. And she awaits the same for her sister’s twin bracelet, watching and waiting before their mother grows quite still and her gaze snaps up to her sister’s face, then to her mother’s, still in Safrin’s close proximity and range as her sister steps away, the disappointment clear and palpable between them even if there’s no attuned bond yet while she’s not shifted to prove to her that Nova’s upset. “Hey, you can try again, right mom?” Looking up at her mother she hesitates for a brief moment, like it’s a question that could be answered with a redo. “It’s gonna be okay, Nova.” She can understand the bit of shame that bleeds into her sister, and in any other instance she’d be intensely protective over her sister, but when the disappointment and cause of the upset is their mother, the attuned finds herself torn.
Is it a lesson for Nova to learn, to redo and understand on her own? Or is it something she should reach out to help with? She’s unsure, balancing on that edge between both of them.
Calypso
suddenly i will never be alone
