Vervain
even the darkest night
will end
will end
"Oh, I am terribly sorry. I'd kiss it better, but I think you've got a husband better suited to that sort of thing," Vai tells him sweetly, though there's something positively wicked in her grin that's still riding the high of flying all around Torchline on the back of a dragon. She glances out at the sea as the rest of his shift bleeds away, having lived with Attuned and other shapechangers for long enough to know that staring is sometimes frowned upon, and only when Jata speaks again does she glance back at him.
Softening a bit, she smiles and reaches out to pat his arm, gently guiding them off the beach. "I know you aren't, Sunny," she murmurs. "I just... also know what it's like. Felix's father had the same struggles. Worse, in a lot of ways. The way he came into his shift..." She wrinkles her nose. "They pit the shapechangers against one another. He had to kill in his animal form to win and to survive. It never left him." There's more, too. Worse, but she hesitates to say it.
Softening a bit, she smiles and reaches out to pat his arm, gently guiding them off the beach. "I know you aren't, Sunny," she murmurs. "I just... also know what it's like. Felix's father had the same struggles. Worse, in a lot of ways. The way he came into his shift..." She wrinkles her nose. "They pit the shapechangers against one another. He had to kill in his animal form to win and to survive. It never left him." There's more, too. Worse, but she hesitates to say it.
and the sun
will rise
will rise
