viona has one objective in sight, and that's to pull nelliel into a bone-crushing hug. ( oh, gosh, she's crying... )
unprompted ask / @inkbind
Nelliel Tu Oderschvank re-enters Las Noches the same way her body was thrown off the ledge: chipped, and a bit broken.
Her entrance is not grand or alarming. Rather, steps are discreet and gaze, dour in search of a particular person... in search of Lord Aizen. While she understands the significance of her absence, Nelliel must also make her return known, no matter the outcome, no matter his opinion. That is her duty as the espada in his army.
That was the plan, for him to be the first to know. But it seems there was another who wished to claim that title, another far more eager, far more deserving. The approaching figure up ahead is familiar and significant to her memories, but she cannot recall. Ever since her descent into the dunes of Hueco Mundo, her mind has been like this; muddled and fogged to certain memories. But Nelliel knows this person, knows the cadences of their steps, their familiar reiatsu, the shadow that always lingered a few steps behind hers along with Pesche and Dondochakka. There were always three shadows behind her (though some may argue a sinister four lurked behind) and it’s concerning to think she’d ever forget such a companion, such a joy.
Viona van der Hiede does not give Nelliel the chance to think further before she envelopes her in a tight, tight hug. The embrace renders her anatomy to freeze, the sudden contact jarring, but Nelliel pushes down those feeling in favor of acknowledging her third and final fracción member. “Viona,” she says, and the name rolls off her tongue like home. Nelliel says her name and then understands what her presence means.
Of the things that have changed, of Pesche and Dondochakka’s masks being torn off, of Nelliel’s own being chipped off, of her absence and the things needed to get done to get them here, there was at least one thing that remained unchanging and untouched. Protected. In Viona, remained a bit of normalcy she wished to preserve. And so, while Viona cries on her shoulders, fingers desperately clinging onto her frame, Nelliel finally gives in and returns the embrace wholly, welcomely. At least, at least one came out physically unscathed. That was all she asked for.
“No need to weep, for we are still here and so are you.”