Word Count → 238 :: No problem, bby! <3
Tola wasn't there at the moment; she stood under the stars, yes, but at the same time, she stood above herself, looking down into her own eyes that were so brightly filled by the moon. She was imagining things, to be certain, but the picture was so clear, so vivid, that she couldn't help but gaze up--down?--into her own eyes, entranced by the play of light in them.
The moment was ruined by footsteps approaching, and she turned her head, her ears lifting a bit at the soft squelching of footsteps. The last thing to turn and look at the stranger was her eyes, and even then they reflected the moon for a moment before she focused. There was a man there, roughly clad in a deer skin and holding what looked to be a home-made dagger. The sight might have angered her, incited an instant fight-or-flight instinct that would have sent her roaring at his face, but she wasn't altogether in the right mind for that, nor did she have the energy to do anything but stare at him, nearly incomprehensibly.
Shelter, he said, in a voice that soothed her ears and shooed away the haze in her mind. "Shelter?" She repeated slowly, and then bowed her head, lifting her hands slowly from her sides to examine her palms. "Cold," She said, not even truly aware that she was speaking aloud, "Cold..."
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