Xsaiavlairnn looked over his friend with an oddly curious, almost concerned, expression. "Do I know you?"
Their friendship had lasted years, but somehow, she knew that the question would pop up someday. Overtime, Sphae found answers she would have preferred left alone. Why did she dig in the first place? For him. The more she learned, the wider the rift seemed to get between them. Of course, she never tended to the distance, but a sylvari she came to grow and love as a close friend, well, it can be a difficult thing to manage, knowing both sides of the coin.
Though, the fire-flower of a sylvari didn’t really have room to talk… did she? She never gave him a lot of her truth, only what she wanted him to see, what she wanted to be in light of a new and tolerant friend all those years ago in Shaemoor.
Sphae blinked, realizing just how tightly she had a hold on his wrist. Brilliant, sun-golden embers trailed off her wrist, hanging in the air like amber fire flies. The taller sylvari… had the oddest look on his face. Could she really let that be the last she sees of him? Her fingers twitched. Could she let him go? Oh how easy it would be to let go, just as she has before, with countless others. Run from the past, never see them again, never see him again. How easy it would be. But, she didn’t want easy, not this time.
A calm her friend could never feel doused the fires of anxiety in Sphae’s heart. She quietly replied, “My name is Sphae, we were friends once~….”
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