#fidelii

IT was the sound of branches breaking that alerted her & sora bit down a curse as she pressed her back to a tree. wrapping her cloak tighter around herself && waiting to hear more. this was certainly a more often travelled path than most she would use - but in an area as relatively unpopulated as this she hadn’t really thought much of it. 

( being a fugitive had made her paranoid. because she had herself half convinced it was someone here to drag her back to prison ) 

WHEN sora continued to hear the small shifting sounds of leaves &&& branches she began silently making her way towards the sounds, better to attack first than to let whoever it was know she was there, the silver-haired woman peeked past another tree to find...a girl - dark haired, small enough that sora would be surprised if she were any older than ten. she was...sitting on the ground? 

RELUCTANTLY concerned sorano reminded herself that there’s little ways a child so young could ever recognize her. besides, what was she meant to do, leave a kid who is potentially hurt in the wilderness. alone. 

APPROACHING with a gentleness most would be surprised to see her capable of, sorano was sure to keep a notable distance from the young girl. decidedly uninterested in frightening her - as that could lead to all kinds of trouble, she also made sure that her steps were noisy.  

PERHAPS it would have been easier to get to a train station by following a main road, but Juvia wasn’t in much of a state to attempt that. Main roads meant things like; crowded, loud, unfamiliar,  intense. Her nerves were already frayed enough after her job, she didn’t want to throw herself into another bustling environment. So, when she spotted a lake from the road she’d been walking on before, Juvia had jumped at the chance to follow it’s edges. 

THE sound of the water rippling in the wind was enough to begin to put her at ease, letting her shoulders sink & her body relax. It’d been a long week. She’d accepted a job to help filter out a water system. The flyer had rather conveniently left out the reason it’d been contaminated in the first place: an infestation. The image of the creatures, about as creepy as anything Juvia had ever seen, would probably haunt her forever. Caught up in her flashback, the water-mage didn’t hear any footsteps approaching until it was too late && a small black haired thing appeared in front of her. 

Juvia screamed. 

BEFORE the sound had even stopped coming from her throat, she found herself filled with a rather intense mortification. Because the thing that had startled her wasn’t a thing at all, but rather obviously, a child. 

@fidelii sent:     📌  ( Ur Milkovich ) // ACCEPTING

     "So you're the lady who has trained Gray?"

CANA grinned - christmas wasn’t her favorite time of year ( no, her favorite moments of the year was always, always, going to be the beginning of spring, when ur’s outdoor garden started blooming & her dad started burning himself on the barbecue && silver wore the worst shorts and - ) but it was definitely up there.