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Are you real?
The voice is hushed, almost a whisper and nearly lost in the sigh of the wind on the mountaintop. He pivots, facing a stranger with eyes like the sea and hair of ebony. Jahin likes the sea, but it is so vast, so barren. He recalls standing on black sand, watching the waves writhe and twist as if there was a massive serpent beneath the surface, just like the old stories he had been told as a child. He recalls feeling small and insignificant before the vastness of the ocean and it doesn’t please him to revisit the uncomfortable memory.
“Last I checked,” he said, flipping an ear forward and backward in slight wariness. He had heard tales of people losing their grip on reality up here where the air is the thin and the cold bitter.
She is too delicate and soft to be of Solterra, he thinks, somewhat absentmindedly. The sun and sand would devour her. She looks as if she belongs among the shade of willows and in the green and streams of somewhere more forgiving than Solterra. He does not dismiss the keenness in her eyes, however. He knows better to underestimate someone. She is intriguing in a way he can’t fathom. Plain and modest, and yet otherworldly. Ethereal. Is it the flecks of gold in her eyes? Or the glittering scales that litter her flank like wayward stars?
He frowned, feeling awkward under her earnest gaze and lilting smile, wondering if she might be afflicted after all. “I’ve heard you can hallucinate if you spend too much time up here.”
these scars long have yearned for your tender caress
to bind our fortunes, damn what the stars own ---
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@Isra
12-31-2018, 08:17 PM
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