reunion thread reunion thread reu || @dracstar
you pull your hood closer around your face --- there are a few people with hair similar to yours , but in your many years of self-imposed exile since the end of the war , you've yet to see another with ears like yours . ( and even rarer , you think , would be to see someone with a horn . ) you cannot risk them finding out what you are --- finding out who you are . ( though your name has been stricken from history , you are still afraid . ) ( you know what happened to sothis , and though these people do not seem to know of the existence of your people , you still cannot risk it . ) so you hide yourself .
you lean in closer , to better see the wares that the merchant is trying to sell you ( you're only interested in this particular kind of fruit because he showed it to you ; it's not your favorite , if you're honest , but it's what's here ) and you hear a noise that causes your eyes to focus past his booth .
you look up and you see somebody that looks so familiar --- but you know it could not possibly be him . he died in the war ; he was canonized by the church that seiros created in the aftermath of the war . there's no way that he could be here
for a moment you curse genetics for creating somebody who looks so similar to your lost love . ( the love you left , the love you never said aloud , the love you have thought of every day for hundreds of years . )
and then he looks up .
and those eyes . . . you could never forget those eyes . you don't know how he could possibly be here , don't know how he survived the war --- but you don't care .
the fruit utterly forgotten , you walk around the stall in a daze ; you walk across the marketplace . you go to him , and you remember clearly , for the first time in centuries , the exact way it felt to be in space . ( you remember that it has always come second to the way it felt to being with him . )















