4/12/2025, 3:08 PM
Skill : 「 - 」
Aksel felt an unnatural mixture of guilt, shame, relief, and joy. He had failed at his duty, which led everyone to feel that same suffocating fear of being alone. Solvi had suffered the same thoughts he had been haunted by: Will I ever see them again? Are they okay? Will I be alone? What happened to them? Where do I go? What should I do next? It was almost laughable how those once heavily weighted questions sounded ridiculous now that he was beside her again.
Of course they needn’t worry, the Mother had bound them from the start of their very existence. Aksel was tied to Solvi and she to him, it was written in the stars and their threads of fate had been intertwined since Solvi’s first breath. He would have found her, dead or alive, in this world and any other. He believed the Mother would not sever a bond that is so intensely treasured.
The mention of the caves made him momentary prickle, his muscles tensing as he wrapped around her a bit tighter. He recalled those damned caves and how he had also thought he’d found his companion. In a sense, Aksel did find some version of her in the cursed caverns, but it was not his Solvi. Her words of acceptance were enough to soothe the rigidity he’d felt from the mention of the trick filled caves.
While Solvi’s mind raced, her body would tense and react to whatever doubts and thoughts she had, but it did not bother the Blade. Aksel remained coiled around her like a snake with its prey, there was still a distant fear deep within his psyche that maybe, just maybe, this wasn’t real. Though, he did his best to push away the flicker of doubt and bask in the familiar plush of blonde fur.
Words he expected and words he could not have predicted. She loved him and she missed him, naturally. But… the ones who had taken her in.
But the shift in topic made his heart still from its anxious hammering. A single ear twitched at the final words to leave her lips. Helped her… leave…? Confusion clouded his often readable expression, clearly unsure of what she had been talking about. Ylva helped Solvi leave? Leave Sólskin? Leave her family? Leave her home? Leave him?… But why?
Aksel didn’t understand, even as he strived to. Solvi had fled without anyone or anything, she had convinced him that she was missing—or worse, dead. The man swallowed thickly, his mouth feeling dry and his throat swollen while he formulated his thoughts.
Aksel felt an unnatural mixture of guilt, shame, relief, and joy. He had failed at his duty, which led everyone to feel that same suffocating fear of being alone. Solvi had suffered the same thoughts he had been haunted by: Will I ever see them again? Are they okay? Will I be alone? What happened to them? Where do I go? What should I do next? It was almost laughable how those once heavily weighted questions sounded ridiculous now that he was beside her again.
Of course they needn’t worry, the Mother had bound them from the start of their very existence. Aksel was tied to Solvi and she to him, it was written in the stars and their threads of fate had been intertwined since Solvi’s first breath. He would have found her, dead or alive, in this world and any other. He believed the Mother would not sever a bond that is so intensely treasured.
The mention of the caves made him momentary prickle, his muscles tensing as he wrapped around her a bit tighter. He recalled those damned caves and how he had also thought he’d found his companion. In a sense, Aksel did find some version of her in the cursed caverns, but it was not his Solvi. Her words of acceptance were enough to soothe the rigidity he’d felt from the mention of the trick filled caves.
While Solvi’s mind raced, her body would tense and react to whatever doubts and thoughts she had, but it did not bother the Blade. Aksel remained coiled around her like a snake with its prey, there was still a distant fear deep within his psyche that maybe, just maybe, this wasn’t real. Though, he did his best to push away the flicker of doubt and bask in the familiar plush of blonde fur.
Words he expected and words he could not have predicted. She loved him and she missed him, naturally. But… the ones who had taken her in.
…Dawnbreak?he asked without thinking. Aksel’s mind filled with the little, golden wolf and the larger, monochrome one, and of course how, er, intimately(?) they had huddled up. The Blade’s eye twitched, a foreign sense of unease flooding his belly. Was he going to have to see them again? Did Solvi know them closely? Had they ever mentioned the strange, unknown man they met in a blizzard? Hopefully they hadn’t. If the Mother was kind and just, those two would have been long gone by the time he went to Dawnbreak with Solvi. Maybe the blizzard ate them or they fell off a cliff? It would be better than having to swallow the ill feelings he had surrounding it all.
But the shift in topic made his heart still from its anxious hammering. A single ear twitched at the final words to leave her lips. Helped her… leave…? Confusion clouded his often readable expression, clearly unsure of what she had been talking about. Ylva helped Solvi leave? Leave Sólskin? Leave her family? Leave her home? Leave him?… But why?
Aksel didn’t understand, even as he strived to. Solvi had fled without anyone or anything, she had convinced him that she was missing—or worse, dead. The man swallowed thickly, his mouth feeling dry and his throat swollen while he formulated his thoughts.
I was unaware she aided you,there was a subtle lack of presence in his voice, as he still tried to make sense of it.
I do not know the reason you felt you had to leave alone, without me but I trust you had a good reason for your choices,even if he didn’t understand them, even if he felt slightly abandoned or unwanted, this was Solvi. She would never make choices to harm him.
Have you…Aksel shifted, as if a physical pain was making him move.
Have you spoken of Sólskin?they should discuss both topics, since neither would be heartwarming or joyful. They should release the burdens they each carried.
