Put on that party dress

*Tórnach* · 12-04-2015, 01:02 PM

He uncurled, laying sphinx-like as his smaller sister pranced into the cave, her pale form visible as she moved out of silhouette and into the darkness. Nothing seemed to get Baine down for long, even when they'd had to move into the estuary before the siege. She had somehow remained entirely unaffected by the siege itself too, the pain and blood and anguish that he had forced himself to see having passed unseen by the smaller sibling. She hadn't witnessed the aftermath of the battle that had regained their home. She hadn't witnessed their cousin's suicide. She didn't know the ugly parts of the world. He was glad. He didn't want the sunny little girl to change like he had, to see the things he saw and to know what he knew. Her naivety was a balm to the hurt boy's soul. "Bhí mé thart, anseo agus ansiúd," he told her vaguely. "Bhí mé ag coinneáil féin gnóthach. Bhí mé ag foghlaim go leor nach raibh mé in ann a fhoghlaim sa bhaile." Seeking to smile at his pale sister, he added in the common tongue, "What have you been up to lately, honeybee? Met anyone new?"

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Put on that party dress

Tórnach