I always find my way back

Tamsyn blinked her eyes open with a soft sigh as the breeze passed and a little frown crossed her face. She knew that just sitting and letting her mind drift never did her any good, but she couldn't help but do it anyway. With seven years of life behind her and so many high highs and low lows in those seven years... There was more than enough to keep her mind occupied with memories and what ifs, both good and bad. She had mostly gotten out of the habit of doing this kind of thing until the recent end of winter feast. Sitting there with Artorias as their new Aegis, thinking about how that time the year before Resin had lead the feast and granted her and their children a family name hurt her heart with a longing for things that she could never get back.

"Let go of the sadness, Tamsyn."

As if it was spoken directly from her memories, she heard Resin's voice behind her. The sound made her freeze for a moment, her ears perking to catch it. Immediately logic tried to reason the voice away. She had been thinking of Resin often since the feast and it wasn't like she hadn't imagined hearing Resin's voice before in the days since she passed. But it sounded more real this time and it wasn't a particular phrase she could remember Resin saying before. Hesitantly, as if she was afraid to prove herself wrong, she looked back over her shoulder expecting to find no one there.

But her mint gaze landed on Resin and it felt like her heart might stop. She wasn't really there, not entirely, but even after she blinked a couple of times and shook her head the wispy, translucent figure of her lost love was still standing there in what was once their room. "Resin..." she breathed in disbelief as she got up and turned to face her properly, almost afraid to move closer just in the off chance that she might accidentally disrupt whatever strange thing was making this happen. "Are you really...? But... How...?"

Tamsyn Carpathius