in tenebris est veritas.
“Aidon,” they reply, as if it explains everything-- though it is moreso the flat, reassuring tone of Maeve’s voice that assuages them rather than the words themselves. They pull their cloak close as the named creature descends, as if it might protect them from its whims. But there is a strange sort of comfort in this moment, in the quiet conversation that sprouted from nothing, budded into contemplation, and promised to blossom yet on this frigid shoreline.
The word that lingers in the front of their mind is Torchline, a place which is so wholly distant from this one that it seems almost impossible to imagine the former is real. “I am from there too, I suppose. But I have not been back to that place for some time.”
It might seem strange to picture a savage creature such as Chaele walking the streets of Haulani or enjoying a warm breeze on an Ahi beach, but these are the memories behind her dark eyes as she finds the shapes of palm trees and long-beaked birds in the pinprick patterns above. “Why would Safrin hang the stars for anyone?” They muse aloud, savoring the bizarre candor between the two while it lasts. “I am told the gods and their heralds are fickle. Indifferent to the people and their needs, unless it suits them to be so.”
The word that lingers in the front of their mind is Torchline, a place which is so wholly distant from this one that it seems almost impossible to imagine the former is real. “I am from there too, I suppose. But I have not been back to that place for some time.”
It might seem strange to picture a savage creature such as Chaele walking the streets of Haulani or enjoying a warm breeze on an Ahi beach, but these are the memories behind her dark eyes as she finds the shapes of palm trees and long-beaked birds in the pinprick patterns above. “Why would Safrin hang the stars for anyone?” They muse aloud, savoring the bizarre candor between the two while it lasts. “I am told the gods and their heralds are fickle. Indifferent to the people and their needs, unless it suits them to be so.”
