i've given you all and now i'm nothing
Fertile
01-10-2024, 08:04 PM
She was overwhelmed with a strange feeling after the call left her mouth. It wasn't regret, necessarily, but the crushing weight of knowing she'd done something she couldn't walk back. There had been a chance for her to escape to the far reaches of Auster and bury the life she'd left behind until age finally reclaimed all of her memories one by one. The space of time between which she called for him and he arrived was almost unbearable. All of those months - years - that had passed felt like they'd passed in the span of a breath while this moment felt like an eternity. Then he was there, and he was wrapping her in a familiar embrace, and she knew once and for all that there really had been no other options. She might have made it another few months, whiling away her time in the oblivion of anonymity, but this moment would have come again. In every reality, she would have come back and called out. Everyone wants to be known. It was an incontrovertible fact of life. And he knew her. Really, really knew her. She felt unsteady on her feet. Vertigo, or simply the head rush of being back on Boreas' familiar soil, she wasn't sure. Theory leaned into his embrace, trying not to cry and immediately failing. "I could say the same," she whispered. There hadn't been much left of her just a few months ago, but she felt clearer than she had in the past year. She had been cured. And of course, she said the only thing that could be said: "I'm so sorry." When Jay arrived, she felt as if her heart had disconnected from her body. "Who's this?" She knew without being told that this was his daughter - not only was it there in the scent, it was written all over her lanky body. Corvus didn't need to claim her for Theory to draw her own conclusions. How did she even begin to respond? She had missed so much. Theory didn't even know where to begin. "I'm - " When was the last time she spoke her own name aloud? "I'm Theory," she finished lamely, tears streaking down her face. Corvus could lead how he wanted and she would follow that cue. What could she be to these children?
"theory speaks!"
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