Amaranth: A Dream

[idolpro]

Once, there was a maiden...

...whose battles called her far from home.
She slew the thing she feared most, and conquered the land that feared her.
As she fought, far away, she knew her children needed guidance.
She knew they faced tyrants.
She knew they faced fear.
In her homeland, things were broken.
So, she held up her hand before the sun, and cast a shadow on the world, and drowned the troubles of her home in darkness.

"Survival's a long reach," she said.

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Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

[ well, she's

definitely more sabercat than requiem, now, so,,,


she can't blush covered in fur but she does pull back a little to cover her face with her paws ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

[




....nose boop. ]

I don't know what will remain of me, if I truly leave this place behind. But I am glad to have done that.

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

[ jerks her head back, nose wrinkling, and somehow managing to look a little put out as she stares at her.

and then grumbles a huff of breath, reaching forward to grab amaranth's face in her paws (gently... ish...) and yank her closer again to swipe her broad tongue all up the side of her face and hair.

But like, absolutely intentionally slobbery and gross. ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

[ .........I earned this. ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

[ YEAH! YOU DID!!! ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

[ Well. That was sure a series of Moments.

Amaranth gives a little huff of a sigh, and runs her fingers back through her hair to halfway tidy it. ]

So... what will you do now, Requiem?

[ She means in the immediate—stay or go, or leave all together—but the question isn't not deliberately open-ended. ]

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

[ ... shrinks down, a bit, back to that half-transformed state, if only because shapeshifting actually is comforting for her ]

Is there any point of me going-- there?

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

[ simply ] I don't know.

I'm not sure how much I can trust any of my own judgment about this place, any longer.

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

Do you want me to go?

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

I want...

[ Amaranth closes her eyes, almost pained; exhales ]

...to see my son. If you can help to bring him back, then you should go.
Otherwise... I am glad for the company.

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[stakesthesame]

...

I don't think I can do something like that. So I'll-- stay.

Re: The Almost Bridge - 2/2

[worthathousand]

Alright.

...Thank you.

[ She's mostly quiet then, but she stays near as the two of you watch across the rushing water, and wait. ]