[ for a moment he can almost see her world - the rolling hills of sand, the endless horizon of burning sun. the travelers cloaked against the biting dunes and bright eyes upturned. it's brief - to see alia standing there with her hand in someone else's, and his eyes flutter shut at her touch.
my home is gone, said sadly across their minds, a weeping and mourning thing. the royal amphion left bloody, burned at sea simply for the regent's spite. the ocean may call for him, but the thing that draws him to it? gone.
his eyes flicker open again, his irises as gold as the very sands of arrakis, burning and swirling in the light streaming in from the glass. ]
I think you will, too. Find the place you want to be the most. [ and he believes it, the crackle of blue magic floating around her, beyond his control and out of his awareness, but welcoming her, pressing little sparks of stardust into a rogue freckle upon her cheek, blooming warm. chosen, in a way. someone he can always find now, in the dark. ]
Alia. [ they hadn't introduced themselves properly, had they? ] That's your name, isn't it?
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my home is gone, said sadly across their minds, a weeping and mourning thing. the royal amphion left bloody, burned at sea simply for the regent's spite. the ocean may call for him, but the thing that draws him to it? gone.
his eyes flicker open again, his irises as gold as the very sands of arrakis, burning and swirling in the light streaming in from the glass. ]
I think you will, too. Find the place you want to be the most. [ and he believes it, the crackle of blue magic floating around her, beyond his control and out of his awareness, but welcoming her, pressing little sparks of stardust into a rogue freckle upon her cheek, blooming warm. chosen, in a way. someone he can always find now, in the dark. ]
Alia. [ they hadn't introduced themselves properly, had they? ] That's your name, isn't it?