"At least we've both found out place now."
The words carried a weight that seemed to strike the girl. Her radiant smile softened, as if placed on pause for a moment. Behind bright blue eyes memories flashed, a lifetime passing before her in an instant. Traveling overland south from the Ala Mhigan ramparts whence she had come, through plains, forest, marsh, and desert. By sea, and by cart. Faces lost to eternity, heirlooms and sentimental trinkets vanished to all but memory; the detritus of a life once lived, gone now for ever after.
She could feel the crash of waves on the cliffs below, the sea-wind, and the bonds of family. Upon further flight: the sight of towering trees and the rolling meadows at the foot of the city that towered even higher into the heavens. A foreign home, and prison the same. "A strange foreign girl", ever had she been. Not as a momentary state, but as her very state of being. One shared by the red-headed friend across from whom she sat.
Aya nodded, tentatively. "Found a place, at least." she answered, with a voice as soft as it was reflective, eyes turned out upon the same street.
The words carried a weight that seemed to strike the girl. Her radiant smile softened, as if placed on pause for a moment. Behind bright blue eyes memories flashed, a lifetime passing before her in an instant. Traveling overland south from the Ala Mhigan ramparts whence she had come, through plains, forest, marsh, and desert. By sea, and by cart. Faces lost to eternity, heirlooms and sentimental trinkets vanished to all but memory; the detritus of a life once lived, gone now for ever after.
She could feel the crash of waves on the cliffs below, the sea-wind, and the bonds of family. Upon further flight: the sight of towering trees and the rolling meadows at the foot of the city that towered even higher into the heavens. A foreign home, and prison the same. "A strange foreign girl", ever had she been. Not as a momentary state, but as her very state of being. One shared by the red-headed friend across from whom she sat.
Aya nodded, tentatively. "Found a place, at least." she answered, with a voice as soft as it was reflective, eyes turned out upon the same street.
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