Though she didn’t expect him to react badly – wouldn’t have told him if she did (wouldn’t have painted his arm either) – it was still welcome to feel nothing but understanding from the man she’d come know.
She kept quiet as they moved slowly to the sound of song and flesh. Her thoughts were sluggish from the smoke, slow to provide an answer to his question even inside her own mind. It was her own fault, really; the Rites were reserved for remembrance and reverence, not for reflection.
The details they could figure out on the way. The winter would be long and there would be many evenings with nothing to do but to talk. Tonight didn’t have to be any more complex than a yes or no.
Scabhair smiled a slow smile, leaning back to take in his full expression. He was rough around the edges, kept sharp by the wilds and the road. But who else could understand a wandering soul than a fellow traveller?
“No. I would not.”
She tipped forward, then, and kissed him fully to erase what doubt remained. There was no one instant in which they went from separate to joined; merely a sequence of analog moments until Scabhair and Hath ceased to exist.
She kept quiet as they moved slowly to the sound of song and flesh. Her thoughts were sluggish from the smoke, slow to provide an answer to his question even inside her own mind. It was her own fault, really; the Rites were reserved for remembrance and reverence, not for reflection.
The details they could figure out on the way. The winter would be long and there would be many evenings with nothing to do but to talk. Tonight didn’t have to be any more complex than a yes or no.
Scabhair smiled a slow smile, leaning back to take in his full expression. He was rough around the edges, kept sharp by the wilds and the road. But who else could understand a wandering soul than a fellow traveller?
“No. I would not.”
She tipped forward, then, and kissed him fully to erase what doubt remained. There was no one instant in which they went from separate to joined; merely a sequence of analog moments until Scabhair and Hath ceased to exist.