FLORENTINE
always one decision away from a totally different life
She does not recognize the way he hides his eye in shadows. She does not know to see the way shame slithers like a ghost in his veins. The dark hides all and it crawls over his skin, dancing with the candlelight that flickers upon the walls.
The smell of books is so far from the forests she chose to run in. They are a far far dream from the sea she chooses to soar across. Her chin lifts and bobs watching the soft of the cushions and the way her bones feel liquid in her skin. Her muscles turn pliable and warm, oh sleep hangs upon the fringes of her. It makes her mind hazy in this half-way light. Gold is upon the walls and it is upon her skin. It’s dust gilds her lashes as their shadows fan across her cheek.
Lazy eyes blink slowly, slowly, but sleep will not come to her for her heart is fit and too, too awake. With a sigh she descends to the cushions before him and for a moment takes peace in the presence of a stranger.
In the silence between his words, her gaze trails over the glittering scales of obsidian. Florentine had known only two kirins before and their relationships had never ended well. As she regards this new boy of star-strewn black, she wonders how this third relationship might end. In blood? In tears? Or never at all.
Florentine thinks she prefers the latter.
“Hmmm.” The girl hums with an elven voice that reaches into the dark slumbering silence of the library. “Always a dangerous thing meeting someone after only ever hearing about them. They rarely ever quite reflect the true article…” Her satin lips tip into a small, sleepy smirk. “I just hope the tales of my adventures are true.”
@Relic | | sorry for the delay <3
★ She is clothed with strength and dignity,
and she laughs without fear of the future ★
