stars in the skin
Melita gave a sharp intake of breath at Safrin’s appearance – mostly due to her uncle’s shortcomings, a thousand stories of the goddess, and the potential of other fault lines – though that the deity gave her any time of day might have been promising.
Except for when the request was denied, rapidly. She was sorely tempted to shoot Ronin an ‘I told you so’ look with sharp, narrowed eyes, but she did nothing of the sort. Holding back those impulsive tendencies, she clenched her fingers tightly against her palm instead. From Safrin’s perspective, she could understand it. Who wouldn’t want to gloat in glory over their rival’s disappearance? On a pettiness scale, it’d rank high in the Honeybee’s books. If it was lording over anything or anyone else, she might’ve applauded it.
Except this was for Ludo, and her loyalty could draw her away from the measures of spite and who’d done the most antagonizing, and down to the annals of her growing concerns. Whether or not that would appeal to Safrin was the largest gamble, and she’d have to preemptively give credit to Ronin if he could find a way – Melita was going out on a limb, hastening over branches and not looking where she was going, trying to reach past broken boughs. “If it has disappeared due to something going on, I worry others might fall prey to the same.” Such as more deities - including Safrin herself, who’d been on the receiving end of several horrific plotlines before. If there was something out there that could take down a god..or at the very least, make them vanish...then perhaps they were dealing with another massive threat to Caido.
Except for when the request was denied, rapidly. She was sorely tempted to shoot Ronin an ‘I told you so’ look with sharp, narrowed eyes, but she did nothing of the sort. Holding back those impulsive tendencies, she clenched her fingers tightly against her palm instead. From Safrin’s perspective, she could understand it. Who wouldn’t want to gloat in glory over their rival’s disappearance? On a pettiness scale, it’d rank high in the Honeybee’s books. If it was lording over anything or anyone else, she might’ve applauded it.
Except this was for Ludo, and her loyalty could draw her away from the measures of spite and who’d done the most antagonizing, and down to the annals of her growing concerns. Whether or not that would appeal to Safrin was the largest gamble, and she’d have to preemptively give credit to Ronin if he could find a way – Melita was going out on a limb, hastening over branches and not looking where she was going, trying to reach past broken boughs. “If it has disappeared due to something going on, I worry others might fall prey to the same.” Such as more deities - including Safrin herself, who’d been on the receiving end of several horrific plotlines before. If there was something out there that could take down a god..or at the very least, make them vanish...then perhaps they were dealing with another massive threat to Caido.
Melita
and fire, iron, scales
