[ she, he avoids. not out of malice or disinterest, but because she is a chaotic thing - and he is still rousing from a long slumber, finding his footing among new minds and ones that have stepped just beyond his reach. only for now, he assures himself. he avoids seviilia until the performance is in full blossom, until eyes and hearts are rapturous and he wonders how she feels among it all
and
saints, he is so bold. so audacious, this curling dark thing that he is. less human, more beast. he finds her in the crowd, a beacon of chill and hunger, and curls a gloved hand around her wrist. like this, he is held apart from a majority of the nest - he cannot lend himself to their power, he cannot feed into them but through the deep waters of his mind. he seizes her wrist, and forces it to mean something, though. ]
(Come with me,) [ he urges, and fills her mind with a different place among the crowd
less inhabited by their nestmates, but still full of life. he's audacious, but not fool enough to assume her mind. ]
seviilia.
THE PERFORMANCE ; CLOSED.
[ she, he avoids. not out of malice or disinterest, but because she is a chaotic thing - and he is still rousing from a long slumber, finding his footing among new minds and ones that have stepped just beyond his reach. only for now, he assures himself. he avoids seviilia until the performance is in full blossom, until eyes and hearts are rapturous and he wonders how she feels among it all
and
saints, he is so bold. so audacious, this curling dark thing that he is. less human, more beast. he finds her in the crowd, a beacon of chill and hunger, and curls a gloved hand around her wrist. like this, he is held apart from a majority of the nest - he cannot lend himself to their power, he cannot feed into them but through the deep waters of his mind. he seizes her wrist, and forces it to mean something, though. ]
( Come with me, ) [ he urges, and fills her mind with a different place among the crowd
less inhabited by their nestmates, but still full of life. he's audacious, but not fool enough to assume her mind. ]