WC: Just to prove I can be quick-ish soommetimes >
So lucky for him, to have pleasant memories. So delightful, that he connected them to her. She was pleased on his behalf, too. The scar showed that not all of his history was beautiful, and she supposed that made the better parts of it even more precious. Ancient history was of no interest to the D'Angelo though - she cared only for what she could see before her. On her luperci legs, she towered above him, but she could guess he would be as tall or taller in matching forms. He did not have her muscular bulk, but he had an impressively lean sinew, and a bold smile that transformed - transcended - that deeply-marked face. Her green eyes were as steady as gems, unafraid of seeming to look at his scar; unselfconscious.
"It's nothin'," she said, modest in response to his praise, "and the wind'll whistle through like hell in the winter. But I guess it'll do for now - I'm gonna use it as an outpost, just now and then. It ain't home - that's up in the mountains. How about you?" The reminder of Anathema made a hand reach for her gris-gris, buried in her thick neck-fur near the hollow of her throat, and fondle the contents idly - it was with a fluttering heart she remembered the recent addition and a sudden intensity came into her gemstone eyes; a phosphorescent green smoulder, just the beginnings. "You got a place to call home?" A politely bland smile belied the jade ferocity, telling a tale of a lower-key encounter - a simple introduction between two passers-by, in a maple-tree forest. Telling the truth, but not all of it.
Image courtesy of Ant Jackson@Flickr; Table by the Mentors!
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