03-11-2019, 09:17 PM
It all went south quickly. Asha blinked as the anger fissured like split wounds, her hand jerking back like she’d been burned. The voracity of it drowned out everything, then boiled down to a single moment of deep hurt before everything swept clean away. Only Tobias’s feelings remained after. She swayed, found her back pressed against the wall. Exhaustion filled in the crevices quickly when such heightened feeling was yanked free so suddenly. Elias was already walking away.
She sighed out a breath, pinching the skin between her eyes. The anger she understood, at least insofar as she simply accepted it was him. But the flash of hurt he’d hidden, smothered so quickly she knew it had been intentional. Tears brushed her fingers, a bodily reaction beyond her control. Once noticed she scrubbed them free, offering Tobias something of a conciliatory half smile. “I did warn you.” She shrugged away an explanation she didn’t have to offer; she had little light to shed on the force of Elias’s reaction.
“I’ll speak to my snake friend. Please stay away from Rowan. It’s not worth the risk. I’ll check in later. I said we were friends, didn’t I?” The smile then was her own, genuine. Though afterwards her gaze trailed the direction El had gone, crowding her eyes with equally genuine worry. She didn’t ask what Elias’s aura had shown Tobias, though the question did circle curiously, like it might glean secrets from those stormy depths. Truth was it didn’t matter much what Tobias saw, though. El was El.
She followed after him. Her hand locked into his like the sleek fit of a glove. The familiarity of it soothed her despite the fact he was hidden, though a brief worry pierced that he might pull free. He’d never rejected her like that before, and she had no reason to expect now to be any different. Apart from the silence of his feelings. “Are you okay?” Hesitation marked the question, her lip caught between her teeth.
She sighed out a breath, pinching the skin between her eyes. The anger she understood, at least insofar as she simply accepted it was him. But the flash of hurt he’d hidden, smothered so quickly she knew it had been intentional. Tears brushed her fingers, a bodily reaction beyond her control. Once noticed she scrubbed them free, offering Tobias something of a conciliatory half smile. “I did warn you.” She shrugged away an explanation she didn’t have to offer; she had little light to shed on the force of Elias’s reaction.
“I’ll speak to my snake friend. Please stay away from Rowan. It’s not worth the risk. I’ll check in later. I said we were friends, didn’t I?” The smile then was her own, genuine. Though afterwards her gaze trailed the direction El had gone, crowding her eyes with equally genuine worry. She didn’t ask what Elias’s aura had shown Tobias, though the question did circle curiously, like it might glean secrets from those stormy depths. Truth was it didn’t matter much what Tobias saw, though. El was El.
She followed after him. Her hand locked into his like the sleek fit of a glove. The familiarity of it soothed her despite the fact he was hidden, though a brief worry pierced that he might pull free. He’d never rejected her like that before, and she had no reason to expect now to be any different. Apart from the silence of his feelings. “Are you okay?” Hesitation marked the question, her lip caught between her teeth.