Sohalia
And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
All around the world was waking, I never could go back
All around the world was waking, I never could go back
He was quiet for a moment, and she was afraid to pull back to look at him, terrified of what she might see on his face. She was too young, too inexperienced, too everything for this. While it had seemed like a good idea at the time, looking back, she couldn't believe that not only had she volunteered, but everyone else had gone along with it. Perhaps, later, she could appreciate the faith that her council had shown in her - but for now, she simply marveled that they had been as mad as she'd been to volunteer in the first place.
She took a shuddering breath as Jude tried to reassure her, then sat back up, reaching up to wipe teary eyes with the heel of her hand. She wasn't exactly crying, but it wasn't far off - she could feel the lump in the back of her throat that just wouldn't go away, threatening to strangle her if she didn't let go soon. But she was a leader now, the Heart of Stormbreak - and she could no longer afford such weakness. Not even here, in private, with the man she loved.
"The alternative was to just... keep going the way we were and hope for the best," she admitted with a sigh. "It's just - I've seen the best and the worst of what Stormbreak has to offer. I have ideas to keep the good things going and improve the bad. And I do have a council of advisors - the friends I mentioned. They're all older than me, and they've been here longer. I thought maybe one of them -" But no, none of them had wanted it. And maybe she hadn't either, but she'd been willing to give it a try. Maybe that had just been her youthful naivete in the moment.
"But I'm also eighteen, and I don't know what I'm doing, and this isn't what I had planned. It just feels like everything has to change all of a sudden, and I don't know how to -" Her throat closed, and she huffed in frustration. "I'm terrified," she said frankly. "What if I made a huge mistake?"
She took a shuddering breath as Jude tried to reassure her, then sat back up, reaching up to wipe teary eyes with the heel of her hand. She wasn't exactly crying, but it wasn't far off - she could feel the lump in the back of her throat that just wouldn't go away, threatening to strangle her if she didn't let go soon. But she was a leader now, the Heart of Stormbreak - and she could no longer afford such weakness. Not even here, in private, with the man she loved.
"The alternative was to just... keep going the way we were and hope for the best," she admitted with a sigh. "It's just - I've seen the best and the worst of what Stormbreak has to offer. I have ideas to keep the good things going and improve the bad. And I do have a council of advisors - the friends I mentioned. They're all older than me, and they've been here longer. I thought maybe one of them -" But no, none of them had wanted it. And maybe she hadn't either, but she'd been willing to give it a try. Maybe that had just been her youthful naivete in the moment.
"But I'm also eighteen, and I don't know what I'm doing, and this isn't what I had planned. It just feels like everything has to change all of a sudden, and I don't know how to -" Her throat closed, and she huffed in frustration. "I'm terrified," she said frankly. "What if I made a huge mistake?"
Cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn wide open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken
Minor powerplay allowed without permission.
Feel free to use force/magic on Sohalia.
Feel free to use force/magic on Sohalia.
