#derpywhitecloak

During meditations, I came across a peculiar man whose misery clouded about his entire being like restless dust.  A coal burned silently in his chest and plumed with choking smog.  He made no apparent motion to relieve the suffocation. 

((im so sorry etoile ))

Eikaea wanted to get out. He needed to - if only for a moment.

While he knew of no other place to call "Home", he did know of a person who made him feel at home, wherever they were. Chers Etoile...

The whitecloak had been so caught up in his own misery, that he hadn't even had the decency to check up on his dearest friend. At present, he felt no need to worry her with his troubles. No, he only craved her presence which always brought him into immediate solace, whether they were silent or speaking. He only wanted to see her again. He wanted to be near her.

If there was any lesson that Eikaea had learned in the past few weeks- it was that he should never, ever take the people he loved for granted. He had failed to show his appreciation once, and now it was too late. He just couldn't let it happen again. The thought nearly brought him to a panic, and suddenly, he had been filled with concern. It became urgent for him to visit the dear girl. He rekindled his awareness that she had to have been going through some of her own hardships at the moment. How selfish he had been all this time...

He made his way to her home with haste, but when he arrived, he entered with careful steps. He wasn't sure what he should say to begin with, and his throat almost wouldn't let him speak at all.

[E-... Etoile...? Are you home?]

Even as the day lingered on, Etoile had not dared to rise from her bed. Vinh, who had swarmed and lingered by her bedside fraught with worry for her well-being was nowhere in sight, as she had asked him to take Clothodile out for a little while. The both of them had been cooped up in the house for so long, and she couldn't bear knowing that this was all her doing ever since the shock of bearing the truth to them. They needed a little fresh air.

// I will be fine. // she had assured them in her frail voice, waving her hand slightly to and fro. // I will not leave the house; I will be here when you return, I promise. //

Of course, that in itself didn't seem capable of calming the prince or her pet, but it was the best she could muster, and they still followed her request. With a smile, she had seen them off, then returned to laying on her side, watching the city through the open wall of her home.

She stared off into the distance, watching the light of the mountain beam ever upwards into the atmosphere where the others of her race laid at rest. Ancestors, the dearly deceased, those about to be born and those to be born again... Even in daylight, she knew they were there. The light of day simply blanketed them for the time being, but they were there, waiting for the night when they would outshine the darkness and let themselves be known that they were watching and waiting, casting their light just to be seen for those hours.

A twinge of pain stabbed her chest. There was one amongst the sands of the desert who longed to take their place amid their kind, but could not reach it. She missed her chance to help them.

Just as her eyes began to close once more, finding whatever sanctuary she could in the thought before the last, she heard a familiar voice at the door. She hadn't heard it in so long; it had matured just a little bit since the last time, yet still carried uncertainty.

// Eikaea? // Etoile called back, sitting up and brushing back her hair. Her eyes looked so heavy and restless even with countless hours of sleep, their luster gone and replaced a dull listlessness. The woman wanted to rise from her exhausted state and greet them properly, but sadly hadn't the energy to do so. Instead, she played with the cards she was dealt, and offered her welcome from where she laid.

Sent 3:36pmOhhey it’s the coolest place totally up the way of the old highschool. Off the corner of the school building and this burger joint. They don’t even question a blind kid getting one haha

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