AmaLiA
the shield of safrin
Amalia listens carefully to Ronin's explanation, growing steadily more confused and ill at ease as he goes on. "And now?" she ask softly, meeting his blue eyes with her own unsteady black. He'd misunderstood her- does that mean he does, now?
It is certainly more than Amalia can say.
Licking her lip, the baker looks down at Aoife again, at the dark curls and starlit gaze of the little life that Safrin saved. "I think... I... I will never really understand her." She shakes her head, but it isn't meant as a cop out, and the smile that curls her lips is fond. "She's seen the life and death of stars- compared to that, our lives are barely moments."
Her expression falters, and she looks up at Ronin, not sure she's being successful in conveying her point. "I'm not saying that she doesn't love us. I think she loves more fiercely than anyone else in the world. But I think she, she has a different understanding of love and hate and life and death and good and bad and everything, than we do. If that makes sense." It doesn't, but time and experience has shown again and again that she is terrible at giving voice to her emotions.
It is certainly more than Amalia can say.
Licking her lip, the baker looks down at Aoife again, at the dark curls and starlit gaze of the little life that Safrin saved. "I think... I... I will never really understand her." She shakes her head, but it isn't meant as a cop out, and the smile that curls her lips is fond. "She's seen the life and death of stars- compared to that, our lives are barely moments."
Her expression falters, and she looks up at Ronin, not sure she's being successful in conveying her point. "I'm not saying that she doesn't love us. I think she loves more fiercely than anyone else in the world. But I think she, she has a different understanding of love and hate and life and death and good and bad and everything, than we do. If that makes sense." It doesn't, but time and experience has shown again and again that she is terrible at giving voice to her emotions.
you're breaking your own heart
