DEIMOS
It'd been a day since home could be scattered on his tongue and layered in between his bones again. Could be something other than a distant haze from a draconic mountaintop, from echoing fronds in the midst of a battle’s imminent refrain. And though he’d heard the news, he’d given her time and space, because she’d done this before and he still didn’t know what to do in the aftermath and the wake of so much grief. Habitually, had it been him, he would’ve sunk beneath the surface and probably not risen for a long while, like some phantom, like some wraith, waiting to drown.
And maybe she was, as her call echoed through his mind, as he came through threshold after threshold, seeking her out in the clarity of her voice. Companions might’ve been in pursuit, until their footsteps were mere reverberations too, and the Valkyrie was on his doorstep as he came through the kitchen.
“Ru,” came off as a rumble in his throat, roaming forward with open arms in case that was what she needed and required. No ‘how are yous’. No blatant lies. No pitiful notions, just the truth and veracity of the matter; he’d be here.
And maybe she was, as her call echoed through his mind, as he came through threshold after threshold, seeking her out in the clarity of her voice. Companions might’ve been in pursuit, until their footsteps were mere reverberations too, and the Valkyrie was on his doorstep as he came through the kitchen.
“Ru,” came off as a rumble in his throat, roaming forward with open arms in case that was what she needed and required. No ‘how are yous’. No blatant lies. No pitiful notions, just the truth and veracity of the matter; he’d be here.
i'm in the mood to dissolve in the sky
