This keening soul;
Leto takes a breath and it is full of seasalt, full of life. The wild sea runs in and claims the girls again and again who stand upon its shore. The girls are apart, their black and white skin separated and light and sea and the wind reaches into the places where they touched.
But what relief it is not to touched and be touched! Leto breathes deep, deep until her lungs ache and her heart is fitful behind her breast. Anandi’s words are silk, they are sweet-soft and Leto smiles because, for every piece that is soft is also sharp with violence. Her galaxy eyes close. Her lids blot out the world, though she hears it roaring and vital within her ears. “I am tired of running.” Her gaze seeks out Anandi, her smile small and weary. The sea summons her and obediently Leto takes a step towards it and wonders: is it the sea who holds her fate here, or is it she - or even Anandi?
Leto might have let her mind wonder, she might have begun to let it think that today was not the day, that she would not die beneath the waves and - … But she doesn’t… Not when Anandi speaks of how right she would feel. Oh, would it be right? Leto’s lashes are thick and low across her eyes. They press like dreams upon her cheeks, dreams she dares not take - not when she puts her fate into the hands of a pretty kelpie girl and aches to just… go.
Different… Special
Those words, they lay themselves across Leto’s skin. She feels their branding mark but does not feel changed or marred for it. “What does that even mean?” The shed-star asks as the earth shifts away with the water beneath her feet. Her footing fails as the sea forces her step. She steps deeper, once, twice and yes, yes, she answers the sea and walks. The waves roll in to welcome her, they pull her deeper and deeper, up to her chest, her throat. Her heart is worried, it thunders and races and all of her is alive. The sea water hisses where the white hot of her magic touches it. Steam plumes thick and elegant and Leto looks back to Anandi. “Then come and let’s do something good and right.”
<3 let's do this! -
@Anandi <3| "speaks" | notes: table 2/2!! this was super fun to make
