"What if it changes everything?" Evie asks, glancing at Amalia and taking in a shallow breath. Like the rest of them, she keenly feels the weight of this. It will be a momentous moment either way, but it feels too fast. She's not been given enough time to think about all of this, and neither have the Outlanders.
Once upon a time Evie could not hear the anger in Rory's voice and see the wolf below his tanned skin without thinking of the last time they were really together. Of her family coming to collect her in a wagon, of stretching silences and the sweet smell of hay and how the air had been impossibly still as her first love had been snatched away from her. Once upon a time it was where her mind always went. Now though, all these years later, she can appreciate Rory's anger for what it is, and she stands slightly taller as she turns to look at him, the ocean-blue of her stare unwavering as she nods.
"Free to do whatever they want?" Evie hisses at Maea, tilting her head as if to indicate that the younger woman is wrong. That she is going against the group's grain and that she should rethink her words. "No, they aren't. This is reckless and impulsive. They know nothing of this land and our ways. They have two seasons of information at best, probably less." Glancing towards Amalia and Rory, Evie raises her chin slightly. "Do you think they'll expect a thank you?" She asks bitter and hurt, happily feeding off of Rory's anger. "A good try if it goes poorly?"
Watching as Jigano appears, standing closer to Rory than a friend might do, her eyes flashed a question up at her old friend. It had been nearly a decade since the summer they could talk without sound, knowing each other that well, but this moment had snowballed into an us vs. them, and here was Rory standing with that man who, like the others, immediately assumed he knew more of their world than the rest of them did. That they were all just hear to serve as appreciative puppets.
"Sam—" She hisses across the crowd, spying her idiot twin in his stupid hat and nodding her head to indicate that he should come and join them. evie Please don't ever become a stranger
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[Mini Event] To See and Pray [OPEN TO ALL]
