ETERNAL.

━━  ❀ Lashes touch cheek for each word offered. Inclines head woodenly, voice light enough to float away as she doesn’t exactly form an answer to the question - “It isn’t one that I EXPECTED.” A simple enough thing that she has contemplated - but from the voice of possibly who is the OLDEST god in the universe - it seems too simple. But what does she expect of Donghua Dijun? An ancient being, who has seen past all that is empty in this world - has he ever been loved, or only feared and respected?

“Perhaps it really is what I am lacking, then.” Muses softly. Enjoyment. Interest. Two things tied TOGETHER, that she has yet to experience. The girl is easily forgotten, washed out pale and faint in the moonlit night, with her strange manners and blank look. 

꧁ ❈.*⊱  Another moment of silence, shorter than the last, stretches between them. His answer is more speculation than anything else but he feels disappointed in her reaction. One after another, the waves of confusion wash over him and he is not so clueless as to not find it poetic that it is the moon goddess who controls the waves. There are some things that cannot be learned from scripture and many more that cannot be learned from action alone.