i'm tired of the weight of mortality, i want to tear it from my veins
until i bleed silver and gold
She half expects him to make the comment he thinks of, and is quietly surprised when he doesn’t. Instead, she listens while he speaks and nods along. “It only gets worse as it’s prolonged.” She agrees quietly to his own agreement. Things remained hidden for too long and then exploded, blowing up in the face of everyone involved – a volcanic eruption when it could have been a simple release of pressure early on to prevent it.
Still, she can feel as Pittore curls up and she wraps her arms around him like she would a baby of sorts, focusing on Bastien’s direction and letting Pittore do whatever he chose to do with the fabric and threads. “I didn’t mean the Voice.” She offers quietly, thoughtfully, head tilting. “I meant what we could do on our end and what they can do on their end to come to a compromise. No gods involved.” Certainly something could be done. “There’s many of us who are Abandoned, whom the gods rarely even speak to anyway. I was lucky to see Frey twice when I did. So I think it’s safe to say that perhaps all of the gods out there, ours included, are disinterested to an extent.”
At least, it sure seemed like it.
Still, she can feel as Pittore curls up and she wraps her arms around him like she would a baby of sorts, focusing on Bastien’s direction and letting Pittore do whatever he chose to do with the fabric and threads. “I didn’t mean the Voice.” She offers quietly, thoughtfully, head tilting. “I meant what we could do on our end and what they can do on their end to come to a compromise. No gods involved.” Certainly something could be done. “There’s many of us who are Abandoned, whom the gods rarely even speak to anyway. I was lucky to see Frey twice when I did. So I think it’s safe to say that perhaps all of the gods out there, ours included, are disinterested to an extent.”
At least, it sure seemed like it.
maybe one day they'll chant our names
and name galaxies after us, and we too shall be eternal
REXANNA
