♡・゚: * UNPROMPTED. ┊ always accepting.
↳ @bhaarga has entered the fox den: ❝ Ahri, ❞ Drifting, feet never touching the ground, he floats near to her side, but not close enough to touch, to feel. Close enough to know he's real. ❝ Is this fame really what you desire? ❞
TO STAND ENTIRELY BARE IN FRONT OF THE EYES OF ANOTHER, TO BE DEPRIVED OF THE DEFTLY CRAFTED MASK THAT SHE ADORES AND NEEDS IN EQUAL MEASURE, TO BE FORCED TO DIRECTLY FACE THE MOST CRUEL OF TRUTHS ─── No longer a diva crafted with gold and diamonds, merely a young woman who walks down a path that she never truly chose for herself. His words resonate within the depth of her mind, echo against her ears and then slithers down her proudly arched back ; lying to him now would be futile, unfair, utterly foolish as he seems capable of seeing through and past what she wants others to see.
There is a fleeting moment of silence, a brief pause in which the flutters of her belligerent heart become almost too violent and fervent to bear. AND SHE THINKS, over and over again, about a coherent response that might manage to vocalize the truth and the false at the same time, with equal strength. And yet, a doubt gnaws and howls in the back of her head: would it really be that tremendous to open up, for once ? To outwardly and proudly declare that her desires lay elsewhere, that money and fame mean absolutely nothing to her, that her most intimate dreams are embellished not by the cold and artificial lights of the stage but by blooming flowers and starlit skies ? She hesitates, shifts her weight from one foot to the other, recoils her fur-coated appendages into a single mass of silken fur.
❝ You always seem to know more than you should, dear. I wonder how it’s possible... ❞ Her response is courteous yet inherently bitter ─ Not towards him, but towards an existence that she has, regrettably, only partially experienced thus far ( this is the price to pay, when one consciously chooses to SACRIFICE a part of themselves ; even the moon has a dark side, so why wouldn’t she ? ) . Lithe arms come to neatly fold underneath her breastbone and finally, the vulpine creature turns towards him ; pale features are devoid of their usual roseate warmth as they remain molded into a deeply melancholic expressionism, one that is heavily laden with unspoken feelings, unspoken thoughts. ❝ NO, it is not. But fame is what others desire for me and it would be unfair, if I ever disappointed them, after everything they have done for me. But life is long, right ? I am certain that, one day, I will earn the chance of pursuing my dreams. ❞