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Evie
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Just as her hair is a beacon, so to her is the breadth of his shoulders, the furs along his collar. His voice carries in a rumble like thunder. Evie has never been afraid of storms. Where Sam would cower away in the corner with his books, muttering softly about fires and their risk, Evie would slip out of the back door to run barefoot through the streets to the sparse woods beyond. Her way lit only by the intermittent streaks of lightning brightening the heavy black clouds overhead. She would lay on her back with the sky above her, rain slicking her hair back to her head, and she would laugh with every roil of thunder that would shake through her very bones.
His call is like that, to her. Calling her home. Her easy steps hasten slowly, bit by bit, until she is running for him. Hair a streak of copper against the blinding white, pale cheeks rising to pink as a smile pulls on her lips. There's no point in a return call, not until she is already crashing into him. Tucking her arms beneath to wrap around his waist instead of throwing them over his shoulders. Here, grounded beneath the natural weight of his biceps, buried away from the yawning sky's omnipresent gaze, Evie lays herself against him the same way she used to lay upon the earth - knowing she is safe, that the world is unmoving beneath her. "Deimos," she murmurs back, belated, and though her eyes are wet they are hidden behind her lids and her voice doesn't tremor betrayal to his ears. Squeezing her arms around him, she chuckles. "I almost hoped you'd grow round during LongNight, so I might have leverage to keep you from dragging me to the training grounds," she laughs as she pulls away, not forcing either of them to be entangled emotionally for too long. The grief is still there, but for the first time since she returned to the Grounds, she feels like there is finally a center of gravity to her world again. Someone she cares for, who knows her well, who cares for her instead of what she can do for him. don't let one be you |
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