@icysilence sent 🥶️ for our muses to warm up by cuddling close to a fire .
FIRE had very rich and interesting history. Symbolically, it could mean anything; power, change, purification, rebirth, light and love.. destruction and damnation.. It was an element that Vivian was intimately familiar with, though warm and inviting; it sent a strange and irritable chill twisting in his spine, but it was subtle enough to ignore. It was here that he realized he was probably spacing out, staring at nothing but the flames dancing side to side, and though he doesn’t initially turn his head to look at her, he apologizes never the less.
❝ Sorry. I was just thinking. ❞
He always seems to be apologizing, doesn’t he? He never used to do that in the military (that he could remember).. but then, what did he have to apologize for? He did his job, and he was damned good at it.. but that was neither here nor there, and maybe he was more self-aware than he even realized over how his mind fell off the mark. Instead, the tired revenant leans away from Blanche just enough to brush her hair away from her shoulder, giving him room to rest his head against her shoulder.
And while cold weather didn’t really bother him, in truth, it gave him a reason to be somewhat unabashedly affectionate; often a trait of his that he kept well off in the distance. While his arm kept him propped up, a somewhat familiar, metal tail snakes around them, creating a protective circle. In a way, his way, of being protective while still relaxing before the soft flames.