heaven's a mindset away

Evie

When hope and peace begin to fray

Unaware of the danger she’s in sitting within reach, she can only dramatically turn her head away, cheeks going pink with embarrassment at her assumption even as her lips twitch at the sound of his amusement. “Well - okay yes, I assumed so,” she admits sheepishly, grinning at him from above. Being from the Grounds, she’d expected that exact barbarism. Though he is a far better General than anything Zariah had employed, some things remained an assumed fact in her mind. “Plus who doesn’t secretly enjoy the idea of fit men and women showering in the same space? It’s too easy!” Her flustered defense is accompanied by a flare of her hands, always needing to be moving her body.

Deimos’ offer is sweet, even if he didn’t intend it to be so, and she relaxes further into the warm stone below her bare thighs, hands moving behind her to recline onto her palms. “No, it doesn’t bother me. Do I compare myself physically, or ruminate on my painfully long dry spell of seeing a man nude? Absolutely.” And here she winces at both, laughing softly. “But I’m a healer, I’ve seen plenty of naked bodies.” Many - most, honestly - far less visually appealing than Deimos. “I wish I had that level of confidence, admittedly.” Evie can’t imagine taking her bikini off - either part - even with the foam to cover her from sight. So maybe it’s a matter of self-consciousness over prudishness.

know that daybreak is not far away