MAEA
Carry me through this world alive
I feel no more, this suffering
I feel no more, this suffering
She nodded, confirming. The water had all come to her quite suddenly, from a trickle into a torrent and now this barrage of power that pressed and swelled inside her, waiting to be unleashed. Afraid as she was though, after the initial disaster when it erupted, she hesitated to use it, even for minor tasks. It did not help that she'd already hurt someone with her lack of control.
As for Zariah? The warning did not surprise her, nor did she ask why being part of the family might be a bad thing. She had gleaned some of it after her own conversation with Jigano, and had been alerted to some of the less savory plans the woman had tried to impose on the Hollowed Ground. And now? She had all of Halo to play with, unless the Warden interferred.
"I will keep your warning in mind," was all she said, with a shadowed smile that could mean anything.
Listening to his explanation - one she had not asked for, but that was welcome all the same - she gave in to impulse and made to lift a hand to his shoulder in quiet sympathy. There was indeed nothing she could do to alleviate that kind of pain. She knew loss intimately, perhaps not as recently as Loren or many others, but it was there in her all the same. A gaping hole where her family ought to have been. Her brother, not a twin but still her other half. The need to keep moving, to keep occupied though? That she understood. Lived it, herself, for all that it was wearing her down to the bone.
Maea thought about it, considering. She had many things she wanted and needed. Some were quite secret, others were not, but if it would help Loren to have something at hand, then... she could always come up with something.
"I've been trying to learn my way around this place," she told him, quite truthfully. "So I don't waste time getting lost when I need to know my way around. Are you situated enough to give me a tour?" She waved the notebook in her hand, suggesting she had been in the process already when he found her.
As for Zariah? The warning did not surprise her, nor did she ask why being part of the family might be a bad thing. She had gleaned some of it after her own conversation with Jigano, and had been alerted to some of the less savory plans the woman had tried to impose on the Hollowed Ground. And now? She had all of Halo to play with, unless the Warden interferred.
"I will keep your warning in mind," was all she said, with a shadowed smile that could mean anything.
Listening to his explanation - one she had not asked for, but that was welcome all the same - she gave in to impulse and made to lift a hand to his shoulder in quiet sympathy. There was indeed nothing she could do to alleviate that kind of pain. She knew loss intimately, perhaps not as recently as Loren or many others, but it was there in her all the same. A gaping hole where her family ought to have been. Her brother, not a twin but still her other half. The need to keep moving, to keep occupied though? That she understood. Lived it, herself, for all that it was wearing her down to the bone.
Maea thought about it, considering. She had many things she wanted and needed. Some were quite secret, others were not, but if it would help Loren to have something at hand, then... she could always come up with something.
"I've been trying to learn my way around this place," she told him, quite truthfully. "So I don't waste time getting lost when I need to know my way around. Are you situated enough to give me a tour?" She waved the notebook in her hand, suggesting she had been in the process already when he found her.
Bury me in this cold light
I feed the wolf, and shed my skin
I feed the wolf, and shed my skin
