their fall from grace will pave their path

This would not be the first nor the last time she would traverse this territory. Familiar rocks and bubbling stream beneath a peculiar blood-red sky encircled Calliope in an uncomfortable way. She couldn't explain or understand what had caused the sky to change colors, but she could ignore it for now. Her heart was missing... something. Maybe it was that sweet Barghest or the slim Ivy. Their love had soaked her to the bone, but had not quenched her thirst. No, what she needed was...

Standing right in front of her.

Stopping in her tracks, her pastel gaze fluttered a few times. The last time she had seen the shadow, they had both been young and she had not grown into her adult colors. Gone was the vast array of colors and in its place a swath of lilac and cotton candy pink. Quite a delicate appearance for a girl full of venom.

Once her brain had clicked that it truly was him, Calliope puts on her more flirtatious smile and approaches. No, she prowls toward him like the predator that she is. "My, my, do my eyes deceive me?" She purrs, lashes fluttering and tail lashing back and forth as she closes the distance between them. "And I thought you'd run from my clutches permanently," there's a certain sort of pout to her lips that shows she's disappointed, but also teasing him.

"Speech"