DEIMOS
These were the easier moments, and perhaps he should’ve clung harder to those, rather than build up the residual apprehension in his chest. Studying her reaction gave him enough regards and persistence to continue, with the ease of his dimpled smile along the corners, bemused for a tender moment. “Busy. Patient.” And though his curiosity was often insatiable too, other foundations worked their way through his mind, and whatever lurked within had the same measures of fortitude, endurance, and stoicism. “But I wanted to wait and show you too.” In the middle of reforming Citadel walls or shoving blocks of ice across plains of snow hadn’t seemed the best times either. The reality of leadership meant everything else had come first.
So he nodded at the suggestion thereafter; something to look forward to after the inevitable was dredged up.
It was unfortunate that they couldn’t linger on those happier constituents and possibilities, but he unfurled a breath, weighing out the options and finding neither better or worse by comparison; just different fault lines and consternations drawn in parallel statures. They could run alongside for all he contemplated, both outlined and defined by the way his shoulders straightened, spine taut, rigid, and unyielding. “Depends,” came on a lower rumble, the grin vanishing quickly as veracity formed along his tongue and behind his teeth. “Safrin told me Noah and I would be going to the Draig for the war.”
So he nodded at the suggestion thereafter; something to look forward to after the inevitable was dredged up.
It was unfortunate that they couldn’t linger on those happier constituents and possibilities, but he unfurled a breath, weighing out the options and finding neither better or worse by comparison; just different fault lines and consternations drawn in parallel statures. They could run alongside for all he contemplated, both outlined and defined by the way his shoulders straightened, spine taut, rigid, and unyielding. “Depends,” came on a lower rumble, the grin vanishing quickly as veracity formed along his tongue and behind his teeth. “Safrin told me Noah and I would be going to the Draig for the war.”
i'm in the mood to dissolve in the sky
