Don't paint wonderful lies on me that wash away
She could die for those little smiles. Kill for them too, probably. Was it possible for a heart to actually melt? Hers might, if he kept it up, and so she kept her glance to him brief when he spoke. Her response a pale imitation of the grins she'd offered so freely before. A sliver of new moon smile, barely there before it was gone again.
"I'll have to see if I can find one then," she replied. "Though I would rather not have to kill anything just to make life a little easier for myself." Perhaps she could find a pearl already claimed. If not... well. The beach was fine too. And the ocean was pretty at night too, with the stars to light it and the waves glowing from algeae.
"Really? I never did see all of it. It's that big, that you need an ocean for it to fit?" She thought of carvings she'd seen in Halo, of giant creatures arcing across imagined waves. One had found its way into her bags on one round across the market. At the time she'd not know what to do with it, but now... Her gaze fell on Sunjata. Lingered there, for a time.
"I'll have to see if I can find one then," she replied. "Though I would rather not have to kill anything just to make life a little easier for myself." Perhaps she could find a pearl already claimed. If not... well. The beach was fine too. And the ocean was pretty at night too, with the stars to light it and the waves glowing from algeae.
"Really? I never did see all of it. It's that big, that you need an ocean for it to fit?" She thought of carvings she'd seen in Halo, of giant creatures arcing across imagined waves. One had found its way into her bags on one round across the market. At the time she'd not know what to do with it, but now... Her gaze fell on Sunjata. Lingered there, for a time.
