He felt appreciated and listened to, like he was finally important to someone other than his mother. Someone to listen to him! Someone to understand! He felt joy and progress with his mission to learn and share. It was slow when he came here, but now it was simply just the best thing!
Could it fall apart? Maybe. It often did for many in his position. Some never come back home. Some come back damaged. Some come back with nothing but warm memories. Perhaps he was getting the full spectrum of the experience here is Mythris, the highs and lows. The highs though! That is where is at now, so thankful for getting his throat ripped out…because it meant this right here got to happen! How strange life is!
The light in his eyes grows brighter as she speaks, and how she will show him so many things! The peaks! The crevasses! He nods along with unfettered excitement. She had so much knowledge of things he did not know, knowledge of the land itself. The earth. He was the sky, and she was the land, and it was perfect when they met.
The feeling of her against him again brings him the greatest of pure pleasure. He leans in gently, taking it in like inhaling the sweet smell of a fragrant flower. Nothing can compare to his, he thinks…no, he knows, and her words only solidify such thoughts.
”Yes…forever! Together we shall wander the world, our furs brushing side by side beneath the endless sky. We shall walk the highest peaks and feel the ocean’s touch upon our paws, a thing this one has yet to be graced with,” he exclaimed as they looked to the sky, the glow of the sun paled in comparison to the golden glow of Euphemia by the flame.
Without hesitation, he follows, however it may have seemed a touch of hesitation…though not by the choice. The power of the flame made his form feel so odd and strange with movement. His reaction time was slowed, and though he thought he moved with haste, there were seconds where his body simply did not respond to his commands.
”The stars call to us! They gather to break the sky! The starrise longs to be met by our eyes!” he calls out as they continue onwards, further and further upwards, their bodies ignorant of any pain, ignorant of any exhaustion. Time passes, but at what pace? Their experience did not match the normal passage of the mysterious thing. They knew only the bliss of their moments, to be nothing but happy with their ascent to the heavens.
Their climb continued. The world below them got smaller…but their love only grew! Molten eyes barely wanted to tear away from her, but when they did, they noticed the sun had fallen to the horizon, across the landscape of winter bringing the colors of sunset out like no spring could ever imagine. His mouth opens with anticipation.
”Look, soon it shall be! The dusk shall break and the stars shall know our story!” he sought her side and to press into her, panting as he did so, eyes dashing to her in hopes that she continued to be just as excited as he.
