Thank you for the tag, @orphanheirs !
My words were rip, shiver, bury, trick
Two from A Drink Before Battle!
Gendaran Urskatha stormed down the line of soldiers, his face red and sweating. His brocade robe caught on the fountain as he passed, and he ripped it away as he continued his advance, his beady eyes darting furiously between Yeresym and Meira. Sevei swore under his breath and moved to step in front of Meira, but Thelan got there first.
“Yeresym!” Gendaran shouted. “What do you mean by bringing her out here? This is no place for her!”
“This is no place for you, Gendaran,” Yeresym returned frostily. “Are you out of your mind? Go back inside immediately!”
“He said he liked me...” Kyrzhan buried his face in his hands, his voice smothered as the tears returned in force. “He even kissed me. I don’t understand… why would he be so nice to me and then… and then do this?”
Zarayan groaned and wrapped the side of his own cloak around Kyrzhan, drawing him down to his chest. “It can be hard for some people to accept themselves,” he counseled. “It’s his loss.”
Kelvaran's voice cut through the miasma and she looked up, barely able to see him through the fog.
He knelt down beside her, holding out one hand to her.
“It's your medicine,” he said, “in my palm. One drop. Will it help?”
Kazia stared at his hand skeptically, and he moved it closer.
“Please take it,” he whispered.
She took his hand in both of hers and pulled it over her mouth. When she touched her tongue to his palm, she felt a shiver go through him, and she met his eyes with a reproachful glare.
“I hope that you can understand why I hide this,” she said. “It was never to deceive you. But that unease that you feel now... I don't know which is worse, what you thought of me in ignorance, or what you might think of me now.”
“It is disconcerting,” he admitted, “that you can know my inmost thoughts.”
“I can't hear your thoughts,” she corrected him. “I often wish that I could. Emotions are tricky, often misleading without the context of a thought. I try not to depend on it to think that I know a person.”
Tagging: @gioia-writes-and-others, @wyked-original-writing
Your words are: relax, happen, chase, confused.
