One hand reached up to run long fingers through longer hair, pushing it back from his face with a sharp motion as the lily was cradled with contrasting care in the other. "Deimos and I... there are memorials to Adam and Peter, by Ludo's shrine in Kaiholo," he said gruffly. A small dragon made of black iron and glass, curled up and sleeping beside the shrine with a black wooden snake coiled and resting on its back. A stylized, skeletal luxere made of wood with a small bat on its head beside the dragon, both in the lee protection of the larger shrine.
A shrug to Sunjata's comment on difficulties, for it had been. A source of pain, of jealousy, of anger and eventually resignation and letting go of the man he had been to try and focus on the man he had become...
Ripped away in a shackled stardust shower by Safrin's anger, her ire cracking him open until something else bled through the breaking points, bringing magic to his veins once more.
Difficult to lose. Even more difficult to regain, as it had turned out.
Some of Sunjata's story was familiar, the Flood's tale one that Jigano had heard before in kinder times, before three deaths didn't lie between them. His jaw tensed again at the reminder of what - of who - else was missing, who should have been there, but he swallowed it down again with another jerky nod.
A shrug to Sunjata's comment on difficulties, for it had been. A source of pain, of jealousy, of anger and eventually resignation and letting go of the man he had been to try and focus on the man he had become...
Ripped away in a shackled stardust shower by Safrin's anger, her ire cracking him open until something else bled through the breaking points, bringing magic to his veins once more.
Difficult to lose. Even more difficult to regain, as it had turned out.
Some of Sunjata's story was familiar, the Flood's tale one that Jigano had heard before in kinder times, before three deaths didn't lie between them. His jaw tensed again at the reminder of what - of who - else was missing, who should have been there, but he swallowed it down again with another jerky nod.
