I'll leave my love hidden in the sun
“How… did he take it?” The question was tentative, but Seren could not afford to refrain from asking. This very much concerned her, if only because it would affect her father by extension. She had not dared breathe a word of the whole story to him, and the weight of this particular secret was nothing to shrug at.
Sinking down into the sand, the young woman rolled up her shirt sleeves and reached out her hands towards the fire. As it grew in size, the warmth made her fingers prickle and sting; a distant sensation that soon fell to the back of her mind as Hotaru brought up a different topic.
“Sunjata is my uncle,” she replied simply. “My sister’s father. Someone who was there when I grew up… He was my first friend, and the second person I ever met in this world.” If Remi was a second father, then the Flood was only a step removed from that.
“As for Nate… I don’t think we can get along anymore.” Sighing, she dragged her fingers through the hair. Undid the braid, and combed messy curls with restless motions. “I went to see him a while ago. But almost straight away he began to say how my parents had threatened to kill him, and how I wanted him and the Ascended dead… It was… unpleasant.” To say the least. The accusations stung even now, and made her scowl slightly when she gazed up at Hotaru.
“What do you mean by ‘secure against’?”
Sinking down into the sand, the young woman rolled up her shirt sleeves and reached out her hands towards the fire. As it grew in size, the warmth made her fingers prickle and sting; a distant sensation that soon fell to the back of her mind as Hotaru brought up a different topic.
“Sunjata is my uncle,” she replied simply. “My sister’s father. Someone who was there when I grew up… He was my first friend, and the second person I ever met in this world.” If Remi was a second father, then the Flood was only a step removed from that.
“As for Nate… I don’t think we can get along anymore.” Sighing, she dragged her fingers through the hair. Undid the braid, and combed messy curls with restless motions. “I went to see him a while ago. But almost straight away he began to say how my parents had threatened to kill him, and how I wanted him and the Ascended dead… It was… unpleasant.” To say the least. The accusations stung even now, and made her scowl slightly when she gazed up at Hotaru.
“What do you mean by ‘secure against’?”
For when the darkness comes
SEREN
