Delulu realms

Tagged by @cinder-rellish181 @optimisticgrey and @gortashsrighthand (for Monday musings/wips) Thanks you lovelies! <3

Summer weather and sleep deprivation are taking a toll on me, but I keep trying to hold on. Please be patient! :3

Just a few lines from a veeery self-indulgent Durgetash thing I started two weeks ago for my own wicked enjoyment (it should include some drama, and heavily feature Orin in its third and last part. Supposed title: The Sharp Edge of Truth).

Eleint 5, 1491

"Come on Enver, don't frown like that, please! It's going to be just a matter of a tenday and nothing more, I promise," Suna insisted, trying her best to avoid the inquiring gaze of those dark eyes as she gathered her things. "And if what Sceleritas told me about the ongoing issues regarding the Temple's funding is right," she added as she adjusted the shawl collar of her light summer cloak before the mirror, "dealing with them and finding some kind of solution, at least a temporary one, could even take less than a whole tenday, if we're lucky enough. You will most certainly survive a few days without me, I am quite sure of that. But if you keep whining like this, I might end up sending here one of my most loyal and devoted cultists to keep you company, meanwhile," she concluded with a little wink and a smirk, in a desperate effort to ease the palpable tension between them by turning the discussion into a more lighthearted conversation.

But when she finally turned to face him, she realized he was not smiling at all but he looked deadly serious instead, and from the probing look in those obsidian eyes, it was clear he did not really share her optimism, nor did he truly believe her words.

"He is too smart for such tricks," she found herself thinking, knowing all too well she had been walking on a thin line for far too long now. "Maybe I should have told him about this weeks ago. What if he finds out about my condition on his own? What if he ends up feeling betrayed because of my reticence and never forgives me for hiding such truth from him?".