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Post by striaga on Feb 8, 2018 14:12:35 GMT -6
L I E S E L
Liesel has announced her choice to nobody as of yet; it's caught between her teeth, a whispered breath to Alya one evening. It only feels right.
Liesel shrugs her clothing around her firmer and lets her wings twitch. Her wings. She met her parents, back at Torrine, and knows the truth of it--can't forget it, not the way that her father recoiled upon seeing her. The way her mother turned her face away. Liesel hisses breath between her teeth. Sandals grind the sand. Her head tilts back and she looks behind her to her companion--"It's not that bad," Liesel huffs, her hands wringing. "It's an eye." But that doesn't mean she's not looking at the patches available, the cloths, the swatches. Things that are practical. She wants something nice. Something that will look good, against her dark skin, her gold marks.
"Hey," Liesel huffed, her hands shoving into her pockets, her colorful wings flashing and rustling and fluttering in a slight fashion. "I'm not good with colors." Her head dips and Liesel huffs softly, swiping a hand across her forehead. "So, I mean. You could...help."
It's a quiet way of asking for Aisling to have an active role in the choosing of the eyepatch-cloth. Liesel thinks it's important, for a variety of reasons, which only she really knows.
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Post by fynli on Feb 8, 2018 15:24:17 GMT -6
The adjusting stage from the humid tropics to this place of unforgiving sun was hard on some, mostly on Aisling. She was used to the cold shade of the jungle but now she stood bare, thankful for the cloth that covered her. Primrose was swaddled close to her chest, sensitive skin covered by scarves and keeping her cool.
Walking with others took Aisling’s mind off the heat for a brief moment at least.
She stood close to Liesel- following the other woman around after she’d made it clear that she would be looking after the other’s injuries. She desperately wanted to trust the native born Serorans but she didn’t dare stray from those she felt most familiar with yet. With her new job as a savior, it only made the fussing easier.
At Liesel’s quiet comment, Aisling hummed in amusement. “It’s a wound that has the potential of getting infected if exposed too long, especially in this environment,” she chided Liesel, giving her a soft smile. Both Liesel and her husband had suffered from the past war and Aisling would be damned if she didn’t look after either one.
She turned her gaze towards the available options, taking her time to look over each one and ponder. Picking up a bright golden fabric, she turned to the other woman, holding it up and judging it against her skin. “How do you feel about this one?”
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Post by striaga on Feb 8, 2018 19:31:07 GMT -6
L I E S E L
Her shoulders square in a subtle way. Liesel flicks her wings again, the multi-colored appendages catching light. The jungles had been one thing, but even in Liesel's vagabond days, she'd given Sedo a wide berth. Not of her own choice; she'd followed in step with another. Now, she's here, and the sun does its work, but Liesel doesn't find it so terribly bad. Primrose got another glance, sidewise, that one eye lingering on the child. Liesel was not a woman good at explaining herself emotionally; instead, she had to rely upon her attempts, the clumsiness of her gestures.
A child was a child. Liesel can remember the sway of a deck under her feet.
Aisling's amused hum pulls a flick of Liesel's wings again. Her arms cross underneath her chest, and she turns, head tilting. Her stature is ferocious. Always has been. But the tussle in the air--the knowledge that across the world, there are people who think Liesel's Flight are making the wrong choices...
It had done something to her. Has done something to her. She can only be so stalwart. The course has been stayed for decades. Liesel has a life here, and all she has to do is reach out to grasp it. "Isn't it clean?" Liesel frowns, turning her chin up for a second, staring up at the sun. "It's been cleaned." It's an empty socket, but Liesel doesn't think that way. It's evident.
Her body goes rigid as Aisling pulls a golden fabric, and Liesel watches it against her skin. "...I like that," she admits. There's no shame in it. None at all.
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