pilgrim's promise

KIADA you think that i'll be the dark sky so you can be the star? She doesn’t expect to see Safrin. She expects the shrine to go just about as well as the rest of them had. With no response, an air of note that they’d been heard, but not responded to. And so, in her feathered form, her scarlet eyes scan over the goddess of starlight, the being of whom Amalia is the Shield. A quiet nod is given, even if the goddess doesn’t look to her. They are a long way from home. She can hear Amalia’s response, remains silent at least until Deimos speaks. Anything else about the land, and Kiada has to refuse to ask about the aurora, if it’s here too, if they could make a home in this harsh, beautiful land, how much she desires it and craves it. But instead, she remains quiet, huddling closer to Deimos in their feathered forms, comfort in her presence because she knows what Safrin had done to him while blighted, knows the feeling of being unworthy again and again. i will swallow you whole.