All I Ever Was

The winter frailty clung to the edges of the God's Garden, ice creeping over the stone foundations and climbing up the many wild herbs. The normally pungent scents were dulled by the frost, silenced beneath a blanket of white. Talyssa breathed in deeply, her breath misting in front of her pale blue-grey gaze. Her ivory and matte gold coat a stark against the mostly untouched snow. The stillness of the God's Garden was only broken by her solitary footfalls and the distant rustling of animals seeking refuge against the creeping cold. Her mind was not on the landscape, however, but on finding Quill.

She knew she had been too invested in her studies, that they had come to stay in hearthstone longer than she intended. Her guilt gnawed at her through the cold, the weight of her unrealized distance sitting heavy in her heart. But now, she wanted to reward his patience with her undivided attention.

"Talyssa Carpathius"