#caylangst

Headcanon that after Rayla left, Callum couldn't summon his wings for months. The first time he was able to again was to help Ezran.

do you think if she'd killed him, rayla would've seen him always. in the corners of her house at the silvergrove they spent their fewest, happiest weeks in. in the castle even as they rebuild it, hallways he never walked but she swears he's following her anyway. heard callum's voice in her head. do you think he would've driven her mad. do you think she would've hated it, the inability to move on in any meaningful way. or do you think she would've feared it becoming easier, worried over forgetting how he looked, how he wounded. that she'd prefer being haunted over losing him all over again. a ghost that wants to be haunted. a moonshadow longing for death her whole life. and callum, who'd been so alive (more alive than most people), forever her eternal ghost. her eternal companion, still