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There seemed an endless chasmic void between them that threatened to swallow her whole. It was too dark and too wide for her to cross even if she had wanted to, and she certainly did not. For he wasn't listening ("Caligo was there. I saw her shadows on you.")- a man too deaf and blind and dumb to her plight to comprehend the logic behind her actions - and why was it her task to heal him? To prove to him she had not acted out of spite, only following the truth in her heart. The night was too stifling and suffocating and desolate to inhabit, the light of day had made her feel whole again.
"Tell me the truth, Rose."
Suddenly, she is tired - a deep fatigue draining the fight from her bones momentarily. She looked at Raum, embittered and weary for this was a war she had been fighting her entire life; a battleground she knew like the back of her hand. But, she would not break and she would not bend, too stubborn was her heart of brimstone and fire. "That is the truth." A cold statement, bolstered by the slight defiant lift of her chin. The boy had no right! How dare he seek her out as though she owed him an explanation, a reason, after everything he had said. Rhos watched the shadows clinging to his pale skin as though he had drawn them from the gold-plated room, conjuring them with his elegance and his dark rhythm. She misses his tentatively lowered guard; too shrouded in her contempt. It was gone before she even knew it was there.
Raum whispers again, thrusting a question she wasn't ready to answer into the palm of her soft little hands. Instinctively her mind breathes - Of course, how could you ask such a thing?! But the void between them has transformed into a cosmos Rhoswen could not see beyond - it was eternal in its blackness and so infinite she couldn't bear to breach it.
So she lies, and doesn't care if he knows it. "You are a fool to think I'd even consider helping you, Raum." By coming to Solterra he had put her in an impossible position and the irony of it all only seemed to enrage Rhoswen further. The redhead had left the Night Court life behind - all that stress and anxiety, only to find that it had followed her here in the form of this handsome silvertongued idiot. "You couldn't just leave me alone could you?"
@Raum :*
"Tell me the truth, Rose."
Suddenly, she is tired - a deep fatigue draining the fight from her bones momentarily. She looked at Raum, embittered and weary for this was a war she had been fighting her entire life; a battleground she knew like the back of her hand. But, she would not break and she would not bend, too stubborn was her heart of brimstone and fire. "That is the truth." A cold statement, bolstered by the slight defiant lift of her chin. The boy had no right! How dare he seek her out as though she owed him an explanation, a reason, after everything he had said. Rhos watched the shadows clinging to his pale skin as though he had drawn them from the gold-plated room, conjuring them with his elegance and his dark rhythm. She misses his tentatively lowered guard; too shrouded in her contempt. It was gone before she even knew it was there.
Raum whispers again, thrusting a question she wasn't ready to answer into the palm of her soft little hands. Instinctively her mind breathes - Of course, how could you ask such a thing?! But the void between them has transformed into a cosmos Rhoswen could not see beyond - it was eternal in its blackness and so infinite she couldn't bear to breach it.
So she lies, and doesn't care if he knows it. "You are a fool to think I'd even consider helping you, Raum." By coming to Solterra he had put her in an impossible position and the irony of it all only seemed to enrage Rhoswen further. The redhead had left the Night Court life behind - all that stress and anxiety, only to find that it had followed her here in the form of this handsome silvertongued idiot. "You couldn't just leave me alone could you?"
@Raum :*
