You have so much of everything but still you wanted more
The girl shrugged lightly, and pulled up her knees to the chest so she had something to lean her chin against. "I know. But drifting around up there on my own while you're sitting here... it would be lonely." And boring. She would much rather be right here, next to him.
It seemed they were taking turns with making each other blush. It was cute, the way his eartips kept giving him away, but Seren somehow wished she could have the calm and steady Sah back, from when nothing was awkward. Or at least, when they had been awkward only within themselves... Oh, but that was no good either, was it?
At least he was still not afraid to tease her.
"Perhaps I do," she replied airily, neither confirming or denying the claim - as if her treasure piles on the beach wasn't answer enough. "The bone? Oh, no, that one I got from a friend. He says it has some interesting properties - it's very hard, and really light - and he suggested I should ask my mother to make a weapon out of it. I don't have a really good one of my own."
As for Vanya... a soft exhale slipped from the young girl, and she tilted her head to rest the cheek on a knee. "Vanya was my father's lover when they first came here from Northaven," she explained. "I think they were about to get married... they did have a child together. Aoife, my little sister. But Vanya died, and not long after that my father was killed too... and Safrin placed them in the stars so that they could be together. At least... until she brought dad back to life again, and made him her demigod and champion." The turns after that Seren was not entirely clear on. Not until... "Aoife was killed the year I was born, when a monster attacked the Fiat Lux festival. I was brought to my father right before the Festival of Lights..." Only half a year later.
Her gaze lifted to rest upon Sah's face. He had told her about his lost children. No doubt he could understand the unfathomable grief and loss her father must have gone through better than she ever could.
It seemed they were taking turns with making each other blush. It was cute, the way his eartips kept giving him away, but Seren somehow wished she could have the calm and steady Sah back, from when nothing was awkward. Or at least, when they had been awkward only within themselves... Oh, but that was no good either, was it?
At least he was still not afraid to tease her.
"Perhaps I do," she replied airily, neither confirming or denying the claim - as if her treasure piles on the beach wasn't answer enough. "The bone? Oh, no, that one I got from a friend. He says it has some interesting properties - it's very hard, and really light - and he suggested I should ask my mother to make a weapon out of it. I don't have a really good one of my own."
As for Vanya... a soft exhale slipped from the young girl, and she tilted her head to rest the cheek on a knee. "Vanya was my father's lover when they first came here from Northaven," she explained. "I think they were about to get married... they did have a child together. Aoife, my little sister. But Vanya died, and not long after that my father was killed too... and Safrin placed them in the stars so that they could be together. At least... until she brought dad back to life again, and made him her demigod and champion." The turns after that Seren was not entirely clear on. Not until... "Aoife was killed the year I was born, when a monster attacked the Fiat Lux festival. I was brought to my father right before the Festival of Lights..." Only half a year later.
Her gaze lifted to rest upon Sah's face. He had told her about his lost children. No doubt he could understand the unfathomable grief and loss her father must have gone through better than she ever could.
Seren
