You're so cold
but you feel alive
Worried eyes scanned him for reactions, conveying the truth of what she had seen - of her words - to him. She let him mull it over , nodding confirmation to his guess when he connected a dot she thought he might have forgotten about already.
"Yes. You said you tried to kill your father... I meant that you still have the chance to do so. As you're still there, as much as you are here." Not a mission she approved of, but perhaps a well earned one, considering all the man had done to Sunjata and his family.
It was the smile that made her begin to relax. A quiet breath of relief that he wasn't freaking out about it, that this was the reaction. Even an admission that he would rather be here than there, which was quite the difference from what he had said before; that he wanted to escape Caido and never return. Or had he simply referred to the Grounds, and his problems there?
The girl shifted, settling in more comfortably on his lap. Felt rather small sitting there, cradled against him.
"It does mean that Lusea never came back to life," she told him, rather quietly. Bringing up something that had been on her mind, ever since she heard of the 'resurrected' woman. "When she died in Korofi... she really died, Sunjata. The one you met here was the copy of who she was before she passed."
"Yes. You said you tried to kill your father... I meant that you still have the chance to do so. As you're still there, as much as you are here." Not a mission she approved of, but perhaps a well earned one, considering all the man had done to Sunjata and his family.
It was the smile that made her begin to relax. A quiet breath of relief that he wasn't freaking out about it, that this was the reaction. Even an admission that he would rather be here than there, which was quite the difference from what he had said before; that he wanted to escape Caido and never return. Or had he simply referred to the Grounds, and his problems there?
The girl shifted, settling in more comfortably on his lap. Felt rather small sitting there, cradled against him.
"It does mean that Lusea never came back to life," she told him, rather quietly. Bringing up something that had been on her mind, ever since she heard of the 'resurrected' woman. "When she died in Korofi... she really died, Sunjata. The one you met here was the copy of who she was before she passed."
lay your hands on me
one last time
MAEA
