only everything

Kamaria

I would rather stay here
Where the flowers bloom and the sun, it shines

That her mother could speak with so much empathy about someone that deeply hurt her is a thing Kamaria has to admire. At any other time, she would try her hardest to encompass that depth of character. But her lips tremble and she shakes her head bitterly, scoffing through her tears, "Then how could he leave us now?" She might not always mean the things she says and thinks now but, as things are, she can't pretend to understand.

She leans into her mother's shoulder, and it feels different; she has to adjust herself to be able to fit into the space. She isn't the small thing she used to be but it felt like only moments ago that she was.

In the storm of everything, Kamaria can't put two and two together - that Safrin might be talking about her very own demigod. So she can only look at her mother's eyes, the true starlight within them. Straightening, Kamaria pulls herself together... or tries. She wipes the tears from her own eyes, knowing now that no one else would be doing that for her anymore. "Okay... I can do this," she sucks in a shuddering breath, cheeks puffy and red still but her tears are gone, "Who is he? Where can I find him?"

it shines on you
it lights up our eyes