DEIMOS
The air flowed in and out; rhythmical, unbothered, tethered to the pulsating breadth of his abilities. So his muscles churned, his legs kicked, and the serenity varnished over. It’d been a long, long while since such repose persisted through his heart, bones, or mind, soul restless with every other interval screeching and screaming his way. The sea was a void, but a pleasant one. He had no need to escape it.
Immersed in diving headlong to the bottom, to where pressure didn’t cast him off or away, relinquish him into its depths, he hadn’t noticed the city rising from the line of blending blue, or the individual closing in on him. Later on, the Sword might have lamented the tranquility had taken over his residual, persistent scrutiny, but it didn’t matter when a voice persisted through his mind.
Unexpected, especially around here, the soldier ceased his movements altogether – floating for a moment, before his gaze centered on a mermaid. Which was what she had to be – given the location, and animal (jellyfish?) adornments. Surprise flickered through his features, and if he weren’t underwater his jaw might’ve dropped out of shock. Instead, it altered into a blend of arched brows and further Attuned sentiments, casting the snort he thought of emitting elsewhere – gone, gone, gone. Hello. Uncertain of what else to say, as this had been the first time he’d ever seen any ocean-dweller, he tilted his head a fraction, and resumed some semblance of swimming. Who are you?
Immersed in diving headlong to the bottom, to where pressure didn’t cast him off or away, relinquish him into its depths, he hadn’t noticed the city rising from the line of blending blue, or the individual closing in on him. Later on, the Sword might have lamented the tranquility had taken over his residual, persistent scrutiny, but it didn’t matter when a voice persisted through his mind.
Unexpected, especially around here, the soldier ceased his movements altogether – floating for a moment, before his gaze centered on a mermaid. Which was what she had to be – given the location, and animal (jellyfish?) adornments. Surprise flickered through his features, and if he weren’t underwater his jaw might’ve dropped out of shock. Instead, it altered into a blend of arched brows and further Attuned sentiments, casting the snort he thought of emitting elsewhere – gone, gone, gone. Hello. Uncertain of what else to say, as this had been the first time he’d ever seen any ocean-dweller, he tilted his head a fraction, and resumed some semblance of swimming. Who are you?
who we were before bones, before dirt, before even light
we have always been deep, restless souls
we have always been deep, restless souls
