this is the reckoning
The lights lured him out of the confines of the potential, drowning melancholy. With Kiada gone, and LongNight pressing in, the inclination and habitual routine of sinking into the void, of plucking back into residual darkness and waiting out the storm, curved and carved over his spine. As Warden, he shouldn’t, couldn’t, and striving to be better than years and lives before manifested in a deep, self-loathing sigh, and then trudging on through the interloping streets of the Citadel, maneuvering, keeping to himself, nodding vaguely at passersby, consumed in his wake of movement and motion.
Canine paws clicked over the cobblestones, and with his head down most of the time, he hadn’t noticed the flickering lights – until there was a polar bear (recognizable, from their earlier hunting adventures), and the barbs of illumination gathered nearby.
But instead of wandering or dismissing them, he sat on his haunches, gazing upwards, at patterns immersed into the twilight, of a day and age so remarkably similar it spurned and coiled in his heart. No colors, no varnish of hues painted across the skyline, but as one lingered at the end of his hound nose, he reached across the attuned span, by way of greeting. Noah. A nod given there too, before the minute light bounded off his nares. What are these?
Canine paws clicked over the cobblestones, and with his head down most of the time, he hadn’t noticed the flickering lights – until there was a polar bear (recognizable, from their earlier hunting adventures), and the barbs of illumination gathered nearby.
But instead of wandering or dismissing them, he sat on his haunches, gazing upwards, at patterns immersed into the twilight, of a day and age so remarkably similar it spurned and coiled in his heart. No colors, no varnish of hues painted across the skyline, but as one lingered at the end of his hound nose, he reached across the attuned span, by way of greeting. Noah. A nod given there too, before the minute light bounded off his nares. What are these?
DEIMOS
