Maea
Rest against my pillow
like the aging winter sun
like the aging winter sun
"These are the last ones."
Maea hefted a stack of carefully sorted books onto the shelf, and straightened out her back with a groan. Spine and shoulders alike cracked from the motion; she had spent a good amount of time hunched over a table trying to make sense of the scattered books and scrolls that had been disrupted during the interrupted shrine visit. With the shelves back in place and the mess (mostly) sorted out, she felt a little bit better about the whole thing. Not much, but a little.
Dusting off her hands, she turned to Amun with a half-smile. "Now I'm done. Sorry to keep you waiting." She had insisted on doing most of the work herself, which of course meant it took that much longer to finish. But it was a point of pride, and now that it was dealt with, they could get to the real task at hand without distractions.
"Did you ever visit the guild hall while the Loreseekers were active?" Closing the circuits in her palm until sparks began to lick the skin, she led the way down a corridor and into a section of the building that looked to have been untouched for quite some time. No lanterns lined these passages, and the faint light of her upgrade cast madly flickering shadows all across the stone walls.
They didn't need it to see, strictly speaking, but Maea tried to get used to the idea of her abilities, and so took every opportunity she could find to whip them out.
Maea hefted a stack of carefully sorted books onto the shelf, and straightened out her back with a groan. Spine and shoulders alike cracked from the motion; she had spent a good amount of time hunched over a table trying to make sense of the scattered books and scrolls that had been disrupted during the interrupted shrine visit. With the shelves back in place and the mess (mostly) sorted out, she felt a little bit better about the whole thing. Not much, but a little.
Dusting off her hands, she turned to Amun with a half-smile. "Now I'm done. Sorry to keep you waiting." She had insisted on doing most of the work herself, which of course meant it took that much longer to finish. But it was a point of pride, and now that it was dealt with, they could get to the real task at hand without distractions.
"Did you ever visit the guild hall while the Loreseekers were active?" Closing the circuits in her palm until sparks began to lick the skin, she led the way down a corridor and into a section of the building that looked to have been untouched for quite some time. No lanterns lined these passages, and the faint light of her upgrade cast madly flickering shadows all across the stone walls.
They didn't need it to see, strictly speaking, but Maea tried to get used to the idea of her abilities, and so took every opportunity she could find to whip them out.
Only wake each morning to
remember that you're gone
remember that you're gone
