MABEL
She’d seen her in the dark – rounded her Ascended eyes upon the counterpart long before the woman had spoken. Something inside her froze, and all the restless fervency prickled away for frozen, glacial filaments – features rendering into that familiar, haughty disposition, as if she could chip sedition and spread it into the world and ignore everything else around her. “I’m not,” she claimed – rather honest and forthright.
She wasn’t. She’d made her life in the Hollowed Grounds because that was all they had. And one of the few times she’d dared to venture out, it’d gotten her killed.
Her gaze went elsewhere, upon the waves, upon the current, upon the rippling sounds meeting the sand, and then sauntering back. Like it was taunting her. Like it was brushing past her. Tossing her about. A little speck of dust in the sea.
Nothing. Nothing at all.
“No,” she lied, her hand clutching the hilt all the more. Mabel could’ve asked the other why she was out here, but then she figured the question would round back to her, and she didn’t want to say her reasoning. That impudent stare meandered to the weapons on her hilt instead. “Do you know how to use those?” A swallow; for what, she couldn’t be certain. “I want to learn how to utilize mine better.”
She wasn’t. She’d made her life in the Hollowed Grounds because that was all they had. And one of the few times she’d dared to venture out, it’d gotten her killed.
Her gaze went elsewhere, upon the waves, upon the current, upon the rippling sounds meeting the sand, and then sauntering back. Like it was taunting her. Like it was brushing past her. Tossing her about. A little speck of dust in the sea.
Nothing. Nothing at all.
“No,” she lied, her hand clutching the hilt all the more. Mabel could’ve asked the other why she was out here, but then she figured the question would round back to her, and she didn’t want to say her reasoning. That impudent stare meandered to the weapons on her hilt instead. “Do you know how to use those?” A swallow; for what, she couldn’t be certain. “I want to learn how to utilize mine better.”
Let's go to war to make peace
Let's be cold to create heat
Let's be cold to create heat
