Lioness of Prideless
Played by Naboo

Once more time elapsed like before, passing though not marking how fast, not affecting her in this moment except for the small bit of eagerness and equal parts dread that she felt here. Would this, could this, be home? What a foolish and childish thought, she could hear the dragon king sneer in her memories, for home was not a place. Having resigned herself to that realization her lips pulled into a more stern line, looking away from the distant lands and turning to head back down the path, to continue and leave the fantasies that had occupied her mind in the absence of travel keeping her feet busy. Thoughts of family, of the past, of Vermillion. She daren't linger on that thought for it hurt to know that her own path in life had, through all the fault of her own, diverged and pulled her in a direction that she'd resented. It hadn't stopped her from being her, from becoming who she was always going to be, but the pain was always brooding in the depths of her that she could only reach when she stopped.

Without going far down the path her vision was interrupted by someone blocking it, standing obtusely in the way like they were all that - oh. Confusion shadowed her eyes as she halted briefly, convinced perhaps she was looking at a ghost, pausing the breath that now steeped in her lungs and lingered in her jaws, and without more than a second passing she was off once more. Loose gravel spraying from beneath her feet as she scrambled down the path towards him, for a moment slowing down her run as if to make sure, to really see him once more before plowing into him. "V...." Burying her face into his familiar mane she felt her face warm with tears, realizing how the absence of him, the very thought that he'd been lost to her forever, had left an emptiness within her. "Vermillion....." Once more she felt lost in her childhood, thinking back to the days when she hardly rose above his wrists and nibbled at his toes, unable to stop the way her voice melted back into a soft whisper of disbelief. If she opened her eyes would he still be here?


@Vermillion
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art by redthelioness, code by naboo