closed for @devilstaste .
time felt like it moved more slowly when her father wasn't around and flew by when he was, but she desperately wished it were the opposite. eyes closed, golden hair splayed out in the grass beneath her, she softly sings to herself and embraces the last rays of her beautiful, bright summer sun as it descended in the sky. solveig longed for his return and grew testy with almost all of the activities she was normally perfectly content to occupy herself with.
this little clearing by the stream had been her safe space for some years now, and here the wildflowers bloomed in myriad mystifying colors. her magic had, over time, transformed the land here into a rich, fertile ground where both old growth and new growth flourished in harmony beneath her touch.
sitting upright slowly, she reaches to her left and hooks her dainty digits around the neck of a bottle of ambrosia she'd been nursing on her own since she'd swiped it from the kitchens. her body was warm and tingly, a rosy flush on her cheeks and the tip of her nose. it was then that she heard the unmistakable thud of heavy footsteps, her attention immediately captured. " daddy ! " sol rises to her feet, a grin encompassing her features as she leaves the bottle behind and runs gleefully towards the approaching man.
" i've missed you ! " she gushes, practically throwing herself into his arms on her slightly unsteady legs, clutching onto him for support and burying her face into his chest as her arms wrapped around his middle.