5/10/2025, 10:43 AM
cue the aimless searching — part i. <3
something compels him.
it's an undefined urge, a low tug in belly — an itch in his mind that would not ease until he rose from his place of rest, too early, before the sun had even risen. a need, dracarys believes, to map the lands around the territory his sister intended to claim for her kingdom until he knew all their secrets.
until he could traverse them without sight; recalling them from memory alone.
motion offers the siren prince relief from that compulsion, and he finds his steps slowing as he traverses along the black sand beach, chunks of ice floating along the waves of the seawater haunting like phantoms in his peripheral, large shadows cutting through the fog. icy dread pools in his belly, slithering along his spine as flashes of before — still too fresh to dracarys — threaten to pull him beneath the surface.
his shoulders tense and his steps halt. a low huff of annoyance is given, a sharp incline of his head is given before he offers the water an ugly scowl and keeps moving.
it's an undefined urge, a low tug in belly — an itch in his mind that would not ease until he rose from his place of rest, too early, before the sun had even risen. a need, dracarys believes, to map the lands around the territory his sister intended to claim for her kingdom until he knew all their secrets.
until he could traverse them without sight; recalling them from memory alone.
motion offers the siren prince relief from that compulsion, and he finds his steps slowing as he traverses along the black sand beach, chunks of ice floating along the waves of the seawater haunting like phantoms in his peripheral, large shadows cutting through the fog. icy dread pools in his belly, slithering along his spine as flashes of before — still too fresh to dracarys — threaten to pull him beneath the surface.
his shoulders tense and his steps halt. a low huff of annoyance is given, a sharp incline of his head is given before he offers the water an ugly scowl and keeps moving.