I carried my own ashes to the mountains
Deimos didn’t fall in.
Instead, his brows furrowed with deep contemplation and some confusion; for his own features didn’t ripple through the water. Instead, images in the still proportions were of mountains, far and vast, and he might’ve thought them to be the Basin or Halo itself. But he didn’t recognize these portions and summits to any degree, and was left for a moment of bewilderment, before other motions made themselves known in the forest.
Keen, soldier eyes swiftly followed the line of movement, the shades of crimson and brown intermingling, a wolfish disposition from across the wake. Straightening, he watched in the peculiar silence, waiting for something to happen – a predator’s scheme, supposing the rest of the world was the same way. But when the creature slowed to a stop and did nothing at all, his suspicions were drawn in a new, vague way, head tilted slightly, Attuned bonds reaching out instead of malicious force. Hello.
Instead, his brows furrowed with deep contemplation and some confusion; for his own features didn’t ripple through the water. Instead, images in the still proportions were of mountains, far and vast, and he might’ve thought them to be the Basin or Halo itself. But he didn’t recognize these portions and summits to any degree, and was left for a moment of bewilderment, before other motions made themselves known in the forest.
Keen, soldier eyes swiftly followed the line of movement, the shades of crimson and brown intermingling, a wolfish disposition from across the wake. Straightening, he watched in the peculiar silence, waiting for something to happen – a predator’s scheme, supposing the rest of the world was the same way. But when the creature slowed to a stop and did nothing at all, his suspicions were drawn in a new, vague way, head tilted slightly, Attuned bonds reaching out instead of malicious force. Hello.
DEIMOS
