behind the cellar door

As he questioned her of how she discovered it, a contemplative look crosses her face – her eyes grow softer in the light, no longer carrying the brunt of that icy nature. “I… Uh.” She stammers at first, her brain trying to figure out how to exactly word the feeling. “The magic I had before, I could feel it in a part of me inside. This time, I just pulled at it much like you’d try to control an appendage, and then suddenly I was a bird.” She shrugged, hoping that was a good enough way to explain it. She’s not entirely sure if she’d explain it any differently, or if it were the same with others that had magic or if she were unique in that aspect. But then she asks him if he’d like to join her in her abandoned home – hoping that she doesn’t sound as desperate as that lonely pit of her stomach made her feel. She glances to his face where an unreadable emotion crosses his dark eyes and Kiada finds herself chewing on the inside of her lip in the hesitation. “Do others live there?” Kiada shakes her head no and looks away toward the building down the street with a quiet sigh. “Just me for now, but there’s a lot of rooms and with this cold it can’t hurt to have company.” She admits, perhaps a bit sheepishly before turning to look back at Seiji. After a bit of consideration, however, Seiji agrees to see it and she nods her head with a bit of hope billowing in the pit of her stomach that perhaps a companion in the night – one that felt so eerily similar to a figure of her past that she couldn’t not help herself from offering a place to stay. She gives him a small quiet smile and a shake of her head again, gesturing with a hand toward the end of the settlement. “Not that far, no. Shall we?” She questions, a bit of that prideful girl blossoming back into her face and her step as she begins to move down the snowy street. It doesn’t take very long to get to the somewhat crumbling home – in better shape than some of the others in the area, and she gestures with her head toward it. There’s a large area down below and fairly well in tact stairs that lead to a second level where more rooms were located. “Well, this is it.” She says after a moment, stepping toward the front door to open it up. It squeals and a bit of dust rains down from above, but she makes room for Seiji in case he’d like to enter first. KiadA and here you come, with a shield for a heart, and a sword for a tongue.

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