07-11-2020, 07:36 PM
“Oh, El. So we’re all going to die. That just means it’s what we do before then that counts. It’s the only thing that counts.” Asha slipped her arm through his, despite the drag of his mood flaring all the deeper for the contact. She’d thought if there really was some way to divine the future, perhaps it might be a tool they could use. But even if Rowan’s insights had had a taste of divination to them (and she didn’t know if that was the case or not) the chances of finding another real source was unlikely. Probably Asha’s senses could go some way towards shifting out the worst liars, but she wasn’t infallible. Some people didn’t feel guilt or anything else at all when they lied.
Asha stifled a sigh, knowing it was a bleed through from his restlessness and not something of her own. She desperately wanted to suggest something that would cheer him up, and she didn’t care what, but she also didn’t know how to pierce through the gloom. At least not with anything other than the answer to his riddle, and if she’d had that she would have offered it up already. So she just walked alongside instead.
She felt his mood change before he spoke, rising like bubbles of renewed breath from a drowning man. It was such an unusual indulgence from him, and so sudden besides, that it filled her up almost giddily as she peered at the wallet screen. “Siberia?” His attempted smile prompted a more natural one of her own. “Then we’re going to Siberia?”
Asha stifled a sigh, knowing it was a bleed through from his restlessness and not something of her own. She desperately wanted to suggest something that would cheer him up, and she didn’t care what, but she also didn’t know how to pierce through the gloom. At least not with anything other than the answer to his riddle, and if she’d had that she would have offered it up already. So she just walked alongside instead.
She felt his mood change before he spoke, rising like bubbles of renewed breath from a drowning man. It was such an unusual indulgence from him, and so sudden besides, that it filled her up almost giddily as she peered at the wallet screen. “Siberia?” His attempted smile prompted a more natural one of her own. “Then we’re going to Siberia?”