Elide
Deimos thought she'd been killed and Elide immediately feels humbled by it. The Ascended aren't really inclined to feel things physically, so perhaps this emotion is all the stronger for it. She bows her head and lowers her brows just after catching the way his jaw rolls as if restraining something. Her lips purse tightly together. Self-frustration curls into her shoulders, drawing them tight.
As the general brings his hard stare back to her, she will give him the respect of meeting it at least. For a while she doesn't say anything in return, though her fingernails fidget against the skin of her palms. "I am sorry..." her voice parts her lips in that eventual way, though it's not because of reluctance. His words and sentiments are heavy, and she hadn't expected him to care so much.
"I won't give you excuses, I should have came directly back to inform you of my wellbeing. I am not used to this... to being apart of greater things. Your feelings, the feelings of anyone else... weren't considered in that, and that was wrong of me. I wish I could tell you that I fought bravely, but.. the real battle wasn't fought from my position. We spent much of LongNight in hiding, running. We had to, there were others that didn't wish to fight at all. Or couldn't. There was a child there, Deimos..." she grits her teeth and looks off to the side, over rooftops of surrounding buildings as they line the sky with their dark silhouettes. "I think a part of me wished that I had died, but even that isn't something I fully understand."
As the general brings his hard stare back to her, she will give him the respect of meeting it at least. For a while she doesn't say anything in return, though her fingernails fidget against the skin of her palms. "I am sorry..." her voice parts her lips in that eventual way, though it's not because of reluctance. His words and sentiments are heavy, and she hadn't expected him to care so much.
"I won't give you excuses, I should have came directly back to inform you of my wellbeing. I am not used to this... to being apart of greater things. Your feelings, the feelings of anyone else... weren't considered in that, and that was wrong of me. I wish I could tell you that I fought bravely, but.. the real battle wasn't fought from my position. We spent much of LongNight in hiding, running. We had to, there were others that didn't wish to fight at all. Or couldn't. There was a child there, Deimos..." she grits her teeth and looks off to the side, over rooftops of surrounding buildings as they line the sky with their dark silhouettes. "I think a part of me wished that I had died, but even that isn't something I fully understand."
never before had the song of war
been the song of hope ascending
been the song of hope ascending
