ludo
It has never honoured an Ascended before.
Why it does so now is uncertain - it is a small blessing, perhaps? Or a mockery? Or something else entirely? Is it to mourn the soul thatWessex once was? Or is it to remind her that there was another course, one that she opted out of? One that means she will never be with those for whom she hangs her lanterns.
Not with most of them, anyway.
A gentle breeze whispers through the Wildwood, like gentle voices pressed against the shell of an ear, wishing love and health to all. Yes, even to Wessex.
The Ascended will feel the one for whom she has not hung a lantern - a cheeky cock pressed against her back, maybe, or a hand grazing across her breasts. Oh you, Edrei. And whilst her fellow Ascended, whilst 108 and Aedion and Kristopher do not appear, her mother and her younger sister...
Yes, they are there for all to see. They stand with the queen who stands alone. They stand with her, and they choose her, and they watch the lantern lights together.
Why it does so now is uncertain - it is a small blessing, perhaps? Or a mockery? Or something else entirely? Is it to mourn the soul that
Not with most of them, anyway.
A gentle breeze whispers through the Wildwood, like gentle voices pressed against the shell of an ear, wishing love and health to all. Yes, even to Wessex.
The Ascended will feel the one for whom she has not hung a lantern - a cheeky cock pressed against her back, maybe, or a hand grazing across her breasts. Oh you, Edrei. And whilst her fellow Ascended, whilst 108 and Aedion and Kristopher do not appear, her mother and her younger sister...
Yes, they are there for all to see. They stand with the queen who stands alone. They stand with her, and they choose her, and they watch the lantern lights together.