you must burn brighter than ever
Oh good grief, this youth really wasn’t worth her time.
Stifling a yawn, the girl arched her brow, and continued her work. The water did wonders for the bone, lifting the silt and grit from however long it’d been ensconced, smothered, swallowed, and consumed by the coast. Her hands roamed along, shifting the sand off, and the ripples in the pool curled and contorted over the fragment, churning more and more ivory beneath its cathartic traces.
She lifted her head at his grumble and tone, snorting, the defiant edges of her existence beginning to unfurl themselves in the angle of her chin. “No.” A sweet smile followed, but it didn’t touch her eyes – those seemed far more dangerous, savage, and intrepid. “But you can.” And she made a little shooing gesture with one hand, before lowering her gaze back to the object of interest.
Stifling a yawn, the girl arched her brow, and continued her work. The water did wonders for the bone, lifting the silt and grit from however long it’d been ensconced, smothered, swallowed, and consumed by the coast. Her hands roamed along, shifting the sand off, and the ripples in the pool curled and contorted over the fragment, churning more and more ivory beneath its cathartic traces.
She lifted her head at his grumble and tone, snorting, the defiant edges of her existence beginning to unfurl themselves in the angle of her chin. “No.” A sweet smile followed, but it didn’t touch her eyes – those seemed far more dangerous, savage, and intrepid. “But you can.” And she made a little shooing gesture with one hand, before lowering her gaze back to the object of interest.
Melita