Come, lay with me, if you do not fear what hides in the dark
He turns trustingly into her touch like a docile lamb, but the sharp sapphires that are revealed are intense and focused wholly upon her. There is nothing she cannot take from him, no request made that he would not follow to the letter. Though his faith had not had a name in his old world, the potential for devotion translated clearly across the lines.
The galaxies in her eyes are distractingly beautiful. Her worries - luckily - more so, each word keeping Harper centered in the moment. Ronin is a name he knows only in passing as a connection to Remi and therefore to Phoebe and Torchline’s gossip network, but it’s one he commits to memory anew. “Would you have me defend them as a guard? The sun does not seem to be enough of a dissuasion for them, but with Sunjata being married to an Ascended he can’t ban them entirely, and I can’t work against them outright without forcing his hand as Governor.” Something he is reluctant to do not just because he has few qualms with the man, but because he is one of Safrin’s dearest chosen. Laws and government had never held weight to Harper in the past as a vigilante; he’d go against Torchline’s councils if she asked it of him. Yet Torchline remains convoluted in terms of stance on the Ascended.
The galaxies in her eyes are distractingly beautiful. Her worries - luckily - more so, each word keeping Harper centered in the moment. Ronin is a name he knows only in passing as a connection to Remi and therefore to Phoebe and Torchline’s gossip network, but it’s one he commits to memory anew. “Would you have me defend them as a guard? The sun does not seem to be enough of a dissuasion for them, but with Sunjata being married to an Ascended he can’t ban them entirely, and I can’t work against them outright without forcing his hand as Governor.” Something he is reluctant to do not just because he has few qualms with the man, but because he is one of Safrin’s dearest chosen. Laws and government had never held weight to Harper in the past as a vigilante; he’d go against Torchline’s councils if she asked it of him. Yet Torchline remains convoluted in terms of stance on the Ascended.
