[se] we can't go on together

Hotaru

Somewhere my lifeline still hums and sings
In the mess of all I have thrown away

His praise makes her preen as all praise does, but she waves a hand slightly all the same, laughing slightly. “Nothing magical just yet, but soon I hope.” Dominion over earth and stone has yet to show in her repertoire, but it won’t stop her from construction more mundane items in the meantime.

Hearing about the twins is almost enough to soothe the desire to see them, something she has slowly become more comfortable with, especially as the two grow a little older - obtaining defining features and personalities that will make it harder to see them as anyone but themselves. “I’m glad they’re thriving,” she murmurs with a warm smile, though she spares a moment of sorrow for the fact that she may never see them grace the Academy halls - at least not as Headmistress.

Wrinkling her nose playfully at his teasing, that thread of sorrow plucks itself once more in her heart, dampening her cheer. “Sunjata and I have been seeing one another again.” It feels so very juvenile to call it that, but it’s the best descriptor she has for people who won’t comprehend the complexities of her relationship with the Flood. “I…I’m actually leaving Halo to move in with him in King’s End.” Perhaps if she says it quickly, rips the bandage off, it will hurt less to admit to someone she’d once stood beside as Warden. Deimos’ disapproval she could handle (though their fighting she could not), but somehow telling Noah is just as hard even with his recent similar absence.

“Evie will be taking over the Academy, and I’ll be continuing on as a student myself. Flora also recently became Queen of Torchline; we certainly tried to get her to move as well, but it wasn’t to be,” she admits with a huffed laugh, part of her glow assuredly attributed to pride in her daughter, even if the distance between them remains unfairly vast. At the time, the notion of having her family all in one place had made the decision to move all the more appealing. Still, she isn’t inclined to back out now just because Flora will be remaining in Torchline.

Hungry now,
I am gathering new seeds to throw wide