MELITA
They hadn’t been hunting lately; but with everything else going on, pestilence, sovereignty uprisings, constant alterations and changes, not to mention the fire during LongNight, there really hadn’t been an adequate time to maul and demolish monsters. There’d been too many other things at stake. Her hands went to one of the brushes, a wider bristles at the end, dipping it into a fiery red paint; brushstrokes of eager portions suddenly on the bottom of her canvas. “Not lately. I helped take down a banshee though.” Awe-inspiring, to witness them all dance and seethe and simmer in the inferno’s light, most of them gone now; she swallowed down the rest of the words, furrowing her brows to concentrate on the tapestry she was striving to invoke. When she’d covered the bottom, meant to be like the scorching sand, the molten desert, the hot, radiant proportions of home, she started on the cliffs, the ramparts launching out of the ground and towards the sky. “Oliver and I made some pictures on the Bone Bridge.” A little smile courted itself there, a hum under her breath, Fangorn down by her ankles, peeking up and up.
But at Bastien’s answer towards what he liked to paint, her grin churned into an ebullient, boisterous thing again, eyes and ears turning towards him, somewhat riveted by the comment. “Rexanna is wonderful.” The smile fell a little, as she turned back to her work, some moroseness lingering between eager lines and fervent wonder. “I’m sorry I didn’t get to come to your wedding. I had the blight, and I didn’t –“ she paused, choking it away. I didn’t want to ruin anything, the way she’d already done so with others, striking, rampaging, bulldozing her way through unchecked, unclear hatred and abhorrence. “Rexanna helped me when I was sick though.” And what had Melita ever done in return?
The notion churned at her, bristled and blistered; she swung back to him, a jaw suddenly set in determination. “Could I make her something when I’m done with this? That she can have and see when she gets her eyes back?”
You're all gonna watch me
Disappear into the sun
Disappear into the sun
