Even as she stood there, stripped of her pride & honor, Leona did not falter for a single heartbeat. On the contrary, she looked more resolved than ever before.
Waiting patiently while the other two discussed… whatever it was, the Solari took a deep inhale to steady the swell of her heart in her chest. It really had been ten years —— & Diana looked just as beautiful as she remembered her, if not more. She’d seen so little of her transformed state atop the mountain, & nothing of her ever since. Until now.
Leona reached down & picked up her belt where it laid on the ground. She gave it a gentle shake to get any dirt off, before she wrapped it around her forearm & walked up next to Diana. Once she was walking side by side with her, Leona let out a breath that felt like it’d been held for the whole duration of their conversation so far.
She snuck a peek at her friend. In the past she would have reached out to tuck some of Diana’s hair out of her face, but for obvious reasons she couldn’t do so now. She found herself longing for the time where she could, so much so her voice dropped into a gentler tone similar to the one she’d always spoken to Diana in in the past.
❛ Thank you. ❜ A subtle step closer was all she took —— she couldn’t help it. She wanted to be closer to Diana.
The sneaky steps the other took closer to her made the hairs on her neck go up; alarmed. It was an odd sensation between familiarity and aversion she could not quite place, at least not right now. Diana knew the other very well, but there was that part of her that’d be forever a stranger, yet a part that felt far too similar to hers.
After their ascension, Diana did not expect Leona to verge away from her duties, even if she so terribly wished she’d listen to the newfound ones that were presented to her as a Lunari. In a way, she still thought she wouldn’t, and that all of this would be a waste of time regardless of her bold action. But really, she no longer knew if those were thoughts from the aspect within her, or the old ones implanted on her from long ago, that somehow were resurfacing from the moment she looked at the other.
She hummed quietly at the response. It confused her, had she thought this was all just another favor she was doing to her? Once again, abiding to her requests? Another sharp inhale was taken, the woman doing her best to keep those assumptions at bay, even if they gnawed at her conscious.
Once they found a peaceful place to sit — a park surrounded by Ionia’s magical trees — Diana would direct her glowing silver gaze to the other, one rather impatient at that.
“What do you really want, then? What is it that you terribly need to understand?” she asked, a somewhat demanding tone. Diana’s walls were very much still up, not truly willing to let the other see inside, much less come in. Still, she let her sit near her on the bench, eyes even focusing on the other’s own.
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