❝ when you’re young, you do think that things last forever. unfortunately, they don’t. ❞
@blitzherzen || prompt
⌠🌋⌡ ;; “I have no illusions to the contrary.”
The Eliksni looks over the armor he’s been cleaning, his mismatched eyes blinking each in turn. Of course, he doesn’t have to clean it manually – but the repetitiveness of the task is soothing, in a way. Makes him feel less like every muscle in him is tense beneath his chitin, as if he’s about to be stabbed if he makes a single wrong move and he has to be ready to fight back.
“I do not remember much about my people. Much was taken from me in the rez. But I do know that we are a people well acquainted with loss. And I do know that that is something I still carry.
“I am a newlight, but I am no hatchling.”












