these voices won't leave me alone
Delphia hummed, glancing out over the waters as the young woman did. "Changed, maybe. Or perhaps you merely resonate with this world, set against a hazy, sea-salt sky in which you were always meant to shine." she said a bit wistfully. Her haunted gaze returned to the young woman, smiling just a hint. "But that it is for the better is all that really matters."
Her skeptical look and questions caused the demigoddess to tilt her head slightly, caught by surprise. "Is it flowery?" she asked, having never heard her prose described as such before. A large vocabulary yes, but never flowery. "I am from the Greatwood, where I tend to the souls of the dead for my father, Mort." she said, corners if her eyes crinkling with a hidden smile. "I suppose...I simply like words. All they many ways people have devised to try and distill the vast beauty of life that Vi has created and Rae has tended; as if something so magnificent could be encapsulated by a mortal's tongue." She might have said more but..."Chickens? You, a chicken?" she said with a laugh, the haunted echo of it ringing clear in salty breeze.
"Eloise." she hummed, looking at her adoringly. "A name which sounds like music."
Her skeptical look and questions caused the demigoddess to tilt her head slightly, caught by surprise. "Is it flowery?" she asked, having never heard her prose described as such before. A large vocabulary yes, but never flowery. "I am from the Greatwood, where I tend to the souls of the dead for my father, Mort." she said, corners if her eyes crinkling with a hidden smile. "I suppose...I simply like words. All they many ways people have devised to try and distill the vast beauty of life that Vi has created and Rae has tended; as if something so magnificent could be encapsulated by a mortal's tongue." She might have said more but..."Chickens? You, a chicken?" she said with a laugh, the haunted echo of it ringing clear in salty breeze.
"Eloise." she hummed, looking at her adoringly. "A name which sounds like music."
DELPHIA
