DEIMOS
Heave the silver hollow sliver
Foreign things; to have happiness applied in his direction. He was used to sinister growls, to winds of discontent, adversaries surveying one another in contempt, in abhorrence, or in utter apathy. But what he’d lacked in Helovia, Caido seemingly made up for: people far more tolerant, far more obliging, far more accepting. Even in the midst of demolition, wreckage, and ruin, the perseverance, the hope, and the faith they had guiding them along pathways and cinders was something to behold – even if he couldn’t fathom it. He preferred to dig in, to claw, to root and settle and devastate, and then instead of insinuating himself deeper and deeper and deeper into mires, into warrens, into labyrinthine conjectures, he’d somehow wound up here. A monumental journey he wouldn’t have been able to make on his own; he would’ve stuck to the foothills of barrages and shadows, of sieges and assaults, of melancholy and listlessness, until something drove him to another brink of disaster.And here they were, talking about how he’d managed to find something other than armaments and battles.
Except he still didn’t know what to do in the face of it, disbelieving at his fortune, lowering his eyes to the floor, the prior wrinkle to his nose flattening, brief glimmers of warm smiles. “Thank you.”
She must’ve sensed his discomfort in the prolonged discussion of his life, shifting it entirely, allowing him a small reprieve. He breathed easier, his mind capable of focusing on things known, things fathomed, things comprehended. “I believe so.” He put his trust in Amalia, in all the others who would know an applicable place for it to be featured year-round. “We could always put it where we had before.” He shrugged, Machiavellian thoughts meshing and mulling together. “I can have the Artisan’s Guild put together offerings.” Because despite their rendering of the perch in the previous Deepfrost, no Spark Bird had been summoned. Maybe there’d been too little bestowals, not enough insistence or pull to lure the creature to the Sanctuary.
Unite and spread the heart apart
