MABEL
Oh. Now she saw what he meant.
Her eyes watched as the flicker of lightning held a promise, and then nothing more. Certainly naught worth biting over. She hid her disappointment behind an arched brow and a residual frown.
He seemed fully capable of falling into his own throes, so she leaned back again, not bothering to glance upward at the moon, but across the fields of flowers and petals, content to stew in silence. Except for his last question – which garnered a laugh, hollow, but still amused. “The Voice was Abandoned. That’s why the Old Ones hate them so very much.” The tilt of her head grew even more eldritch, as if she was eerily delighted by expelling all these truths. “She became powerful. Greater. A threat.”
Then she sniffed, perhaps in distaste, perhaps just being a snotty teenager. “Isn’t that what everyone wants to be?”
Her eyes watched as the flicker of lightning held a promise, and then nothing more. Certainly naught worth biting over. She hid her disappointment behind an arched brow and a residual frown.
He seemed fully capable of falling into his own throes, so she leaned back again, not bothering to glance upward at the moon, but across the fields of flowers and petals, content to stew in silence. Except for his last question – which garnered a laugh, hollow, but still amused. “The Voice was Abandoned. That’s why the Old Ones hate them so very much.” The tilt of her head grew even more eldritch, as if she was eerily delighted by expelling all these truths. “She became powerful. Greater. A threat.”
Then she sniffed, perhaps in distaste, perhaps just being a snotty teenager. “Isn’t that what everyone wants to be?”
If you dig under my feet
You will find things that you don't want to see
You will find things that you don't want to see
