Evie
Her only company for countless minutes is the roar of the falls and the stone that she rolls in her palm. Evie's thoughts drift restlessly from one topic to another. Sam, the apothecary, her parents, Amalia...it is soothing to have limitless time to sit and allow herself to explore these topics naturally. Uninterrupted, unencumbered. Glancing down at the little stone in her palm, she traces the edges with her free fingertips, eyes glazed over and staring into some distant horizon. Her life had changed so much in the recent years, and she feels aimless, lost. But here, with only the woods and the water, she is just another speck of life in the Greatwood. There is comfort in being a small piece of a big picture. Here, it doesn't matter that she was born wrong.
Footsteps draw her attention, jolting slightly as she's pulled from her thoughts, immediately turning to inspect the noise over her shoulder. Evie blinks stupidly at the image the man makes as he approaches, feeling just as foolish for being so caught in her head when the woods were not truly safe. His call is weak, tremulous, but it inspires a warm and welcoming smile upon Evie's face nonetheless. Patting the sand next to her, she turns halfway to gaze up at him, trying to seem harmless. As if she was threatening, with no weaponry and only a few inches on the man.
"Hiya," she calls back, fiddling the stone between both hands now and letting her legs kick out to splay before her. "Would you like to join me?" Hopefully he would, perhaps it was time to get out of her little mental rut. A sign from the mysterious woods, or whatever silly explanation she could use to conceal her own loneliness.
be the love you never received
the love you've always wanted
