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Thinking is obsolete, her energy drained – she is relieved by the explanation of the creature dancing below his knees. Without thoughts, raw emotions flutter by, or plainly strike out like a bolt of lightening among the fray. She wishes she had something unique about herself, something powerful like magic; maybe that would make things… better? Amusing, definitely, and although the slight presence of jealousy runs its course it is weak and frivolous.
It’s the pain; constant, unyielding that gets her. Each step is harder, it becomes a task to hide the deeper grimaces or winces, the sounds that impart her lips to crack open with strangled cries. The girl grits her teeth, snorting out her breath now and again. She will not stop, she will not stumble and fall, fall into the ground like a vulnerable fragile thing.
She would have responded to him, but it takes everything, every bit of energy to prevent the youth’s façade from unbinding. With another uneasy exhale she finds the water’s edge, the trail of light beaming from the golem’s head. Stepping further within. The coolness of the water is at first – a biting sting. Frigid, compared to the heat that plagues the lands, the moisture in the air. Caution thrown aside, she enters until her chest is just about above the surface.
Ru’s wings slump further down as she extends her neck to the pool. Thirsty, ravenous lips seeking reprieve. Her eyelids hang low as she sips. Savoring the simplistic necessity. For a moment, she is reminded what it was like to stand beside her mother – the source of her existence, sustenance, shelter and – love? The warmth of her side and the smell of her skin, the way she danced into the air, and the bite of her caution. Ru’s ears twitch, caught in between the dreaming and the living.
She opens her eyes, taking in the darkness, gazing back upon the golem. Wishing, hopelessly, that she were home. For that ungodly light to transport her back – if it could. But it stands alone in the ruin, a single flame standing still.
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