EVIE
like love is a bad word
Despite what the Fae had done to her family when the Greatwood had first been discovered, Evie can't feel any true trepidation standing beneath these mighty trees. The boughs are turning glorious colors overhead, and she turns her face to the sky to feel the weak warmth dappling through dying leaves to kiss across her cheeks. It's a moment of serenity that she doesn't often experience anymore, so taken with her new duties as Assistant Grand Healer, as magical student and newly installed citizen of Halo. It makes it all the easier to be snuck up on, though she doesn't think the woman who does the surprising means it. She startles a little nonetheless, blue eyes blinking open and heart thudding hard before familiarity washes over her the moment the younger woman appears in her field of vision.There is no such sense of hesitancy in Evie, still blind and ignorant to all that has happened, to Amalia's grievous injury and the revelations that Amalia and Sam have weathered on their own. Still an outsider, last to know even in her own family. But there is no hurt here, only joyous reunion, and Evie smiles brighter than a summer sun as she shrinks the space between them to drop a kiss upon Amalia's brow and squeeze her tight. "Lia! What are the chances? How are you?" Brightness dims into a regretful downturn of her brows, squeezing Amalia as if the tightness of her grasp can erase her prolonged absence. "I have so much to tell you, I'm sorry I've been gone so long. I'm...well, I'm living in Halo now. It has been hard to get away." For all their hardiness, there is much work to be done in Halo to help the citizens, and she has been unaware of the swift passing of days when entangled in such constructions.
