& those dizzy stargazers
who dreamed of the black
kept their heads in the clouds
& they never looked back
who dreamed of the black
kept their heads in the clouds
& they never looked back
Let’s be honest, Cress isn’t the most…detailed orientated creature.
She completely missed the soft sadness that had washed over her antlered friend, completely missed the ‘was’ in her answer, not putting together that this young girl hadn’t traveled to Novus because she’d wanted to, hadn’t just been out to explore the world… no, in some way shape or form, this girl’s homeland had been taken from her, ripped away without the possibility of her being able to return. No matter that Cress had no intentions of ever really returning to her family, it wasn’t impossible for her to do so. It was always there, a safety net, a plan b, waiting and ready to catch her.
But that wasn’t the point.
The point was that Cress missed all that, because she is not good with subtleties.
The little blue jay turned away from the view of the horizon and back to the cream and rust girl, who answered her question easily, and her worried brow eases, her smile returning as quickly as it had gone. She bobbed her head and giggled back at her, stopping as the girl continued. She crooked her head a little… so many names that she didn’t know! It seemed this Dusk land had a lot of new friends she needed to meet.
“Maybe this… Dusk court… is new? Or Novus. Or both.” She said, as if the idea of a new realm just popping into existence wasn’t strange to her. “But its been around long enough for you to have had some adventures here! That’s always fun!” She said with a grin.
“So if it’s a Court, does that mean there’s… a castle? Maybe we should go there! Introduce ourselves!” She said suddenly, body quivering with the desire to prance in place (she restrained herself, barely). She remembered then, what her friend had said, about not being sure about staying here. “Hm. Or maybe we should look around? What do you think?”
@Maude
