[ river doesn't need to be a reader to hear and feel the change in him. she watched it happened, absorbed the awkward tilt of lips unused to smiling and the croaking sound of forgotten joy. laughter, again, something she looks for and holds so dearly -
his seems to have cracks along the edges, same as many she's seen that hide something heavy behind hand-painted masks. and even still, the sound makes her happy.
river contemplates the man called alyx as he crouches by her feet with magic-warmed shoes. water pools beneath him from his own soaked clothes, the underpinning how extraordinarily patient and kind he's being with her.
her heart squeezes, and instead of moving to put on the shoes, she stares at the mages that are still watching them from afar, passively waiting for alyx to clean up a mess they ( she ) made. ]
Can your húyán luàn yǔ "magic" fix his clothes too?
[ her stare is rather stern for such a small stature, eyebrows furrowed as though challenging the mages to prove themselves. they're supposed to be "honored guests," are they not, as the kingdom of thorne's stolen sacrificeschampions.
all thoughts of the shoes are lost for now, in favor of river stubbornly waiting for the mages to dry alyx's clothes first. ]
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his seems to have cracks along the edges, same as many she's seen that hide something heavy behind hand-painted masks. and even still, the sound makes her happy.
river contemplates the man called alyx as he crouches by her feet with magic-warmed shoes. water pools beneath him from his own soaked clothes, the underpinning how extraordinarily patient and kind he's being with her.
her heart squeezes, and instead of moving to put on the shoes, she stares at the mages that are still watching them from afar, passively waiting for alyx to clean up a mess they ( she ) made. ]
Can your húyán luàn yǔ "magic" fix his clothes too?
[ her stare is rather stern for such a small stature, eyebrows furrowed as though challenging the mages to prove themselves. they're supposed to be "honored guests," are they not, as the kingdom of thorne's stolen
sacrificeschampions.all thoughts of the shoes are lost for now, in favor of river stubbornly waiting for the mages to dry alyx's clothes first. ]