i've aged a year this week
sirius
04-19-2022, 02:12 AM
Adhara was out here, sure, but no better for it. Maybe she’s been a variety of dead all along. Something else. Something different. Cold and bold, they’d turned her into a weapon. Carefully honed from the start.
To hear their mother’s name fall from his lips, it’s a curse. For the first time, Adhara stands still. “Died in the last siege, as far as I know. I didn’t see her make it out,” some of the edge in Adhara’s tone has blunted. The thought sits heavily in the space between them.
“They told me that my brother died… every time I asked for him, they told me he’d died.” Adhara can’t help but stop. Stock still. There was something strange in her voice, something she wasn’t accustomed to any longer. Only at the end does her voice crack. Only at the end does she look beseechingly to Sirius where he stands before her. All of it was so strange.
Was it too much to believe? Was this a trap? It could have been and yet… and yet. Adhara feels very, very old, all at once.
"Adhara"
To hear their mother’s name fall from his lips, it’s a curse. For the first time, Adhara stands still. “Died in the last siege, as far as I know. I didn’t see her make it out,” some of the edge in Adhara’s tone has blunted. The thought sits heavily in the space between them.
“They told me that my brother died… every time I asked for him, they told me he’d died.” Adhara can’t help but stop. Stock still. There was something strange in her voice, something she wasn’t accustomed to any longer. Only at the end does her voice crack. Only at the end does she look beseechingly to Sirius where he stands before her. All of it was so strange.
Was it too much to believe? Was this a trap? It could have been and yet… and yet. Adhara feels very, very old, all at once.