all I wanted was proof / that you understand sonder

Finch II · 10-08-2024, 06:10 PM

All manner of strangeness had happened to Finch since she'd arrived here. That was what she told herself, anyway: that these things happened to her, not that she had gone looking for them, which was dangerously close to the truth. She had felt so unmoored since her mother's passing that she had longed for something to happen. In fact, that strange heavy feeling that had plagued her since she'd slipped from her den in Avalon finally found its name: guilt. She felt guilty over this phenomenon, as if she had somehow conjured it herself as a lark to pass the time.

Logically, she knew this couldn't be further from the truth. Just as the heavy weight of that feeling settled on her shoulders in full, another thing simply happened to her: Calliope appeared, nearly slavering as she looked Finch over with approval. That strange prickling sensation that had happened when she'd met Bjorn happened again, alighting down her spine as if someone stroked a path through her fur from the base of her skull to the tip of her tail. The skittering, fleeting thought that maybe she liked it when someone looked at her like that.

But Calliope looked like she wanted to eat her alive.

Finch gulped and shifted awkwardly on her paws. All of this red light was going straight to her head. Wasn't this what she wanted? Something different? This was nothing like Avalon. "Actually, I'm not little," she said, sharpening her gaze just a touch as she assessed Calliope's physique in full with a healer's practiced eye, "You're just unusually large, clinically speaking." That's rude, that's rude, that's rude. "A-and also pretty," Finch added, shifting her gaze quickly away to the pointed end of one of those spires high up in the sky.

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all I wanted was proof / that you understand sonder

Finch II