i came and sat in your pew

KIADA

You think I'll be the night sky,
so that you can be the star?

She listens to Wessex, hearing her out, but between all of the things she’s feeling she finds it difficult to let them sink in. One thing Kiada was good at, a flaw of her person, is holding onto her rage and letting it consume her. To let that fiery side of her lash out when she can no longer hold it in, letting it fill that hollow cold void she’s become since she’s returned and found out what had all changed, what war loomed on the horizon, and the task she’s been brought back to accomplish with the rest of the Ascended.

She huffs a sigh she doesn’t need to. She wants to reply and yell and get it all off of her chest, but her fury is subsiding in turn for mental exhaustion – a side effect she’s learned from being unable to sleep and having to think over things time and time again until she’s thought it to death. It was exhausting. So she reaches up to rub at her temple, to pinch the bridge of her nose, exhaling the sigh slowly and internally grumbling about how much it didn’t relieve the stress she was under.

“I only want to be left alone. That’s all I wanted.” She says flatly, before she’s abruptly standing, unable to continue the conversation much longer. Unknowingly, she activates the armor plating along her chest, ignoring it as it locks into place above her arms, lightweight but decently strong as she moves toward the door. “I guess I’ll see you at LongNight.” That’s about as much of a ‘you should leave’ that the Harpy can muster.

And once Wessex does leave, Kiada shuts and locks the door behind her, to sink back into the seat at the table and stare at the wood grain until it’s all she can see.

- FIN

i'll swallow you whole.