Prev| tw: mentions of grief, guilt
It's well into the night and the only thing that can be heard is the faintest humming disturbed by sniffles and a voice crack.
The source is you; sitting in a "well loved" (read: raggedy) sofa chair. Patches sewn over holes and pieces where the inner wood sticks out from wear. But you pair a little too well with our well loved chair. Tears slowly spilling down your cheek as you face the coffee table.
You'd been down here for a few hours, the last of your group of cleaners to leave the room for the night. You'd waved your friends and son off to bed saying you were staying to clean everything up.
Once they'd gone you couldn't hold it in anymore and collapsed in the chair, not moving much since.
It's been a few months since you and Rudo were dropped from the Sphere. A few months of fighting, training, hoping that one day things would be alright.
In that time you'd never really had time to grieve. You don't think Rudo truly did either.
Even thinking his name is almost unbearable. This entire time you'd been down here and you haven't had a true moment to think about him. Hoping that what happened wasn't true.
But finally getting to a bit of a lull has shown you just how much the loss of Regto affects you.
He was your best friend, your love, Rudos dad no matter how much the boy wouldn't admit it before.
He was gone. And you hadn't given him much time on your mind since.
You felt so guilty for not drowning in the grief and giving him a proper send off, but Rudo is your priority. The cleaners are your priority. You clutch the gifted coat they'd had made for you, hosting your cherished hourglass pin.
You eyed the pin when the dim lights glinted off of it.
"If only I could turn back time to see you again..."
Brushing your thumb over it you continued to think of your past with Regto and decided to see if Rudo would want to do a late send off with you. Nothing grand like Remlin and canvas town but something that would show just as much love. As you move to stand trying to pull yourself together your pin starts to glow a bright orange that travels through your hand.
Once the light clears you notice your pin has grown in size and has created a sand tether to the coat through the sand embroidery. The sand that flows into the hour glass in your hands moves in ripples and waves.
You just stare in shock until the sand shifts.
Slowly the form of Regto appears in the sand. Moving through the streets of the inner city on the sphere, book in hand and bundled up even through hot weather.
But he was there. You couldn't take your eyes off of him even as the image changed. Different moments in his life. Memories.
Your tears couldn't stop falling as you watched. Over and over. Every shared moment. Laughing at the good and silly, heart breaking at the bad, but so full of joy. Finally able to see him again.
You don't realize how long you'd spent rewatching the shared memories, but when the door to the common area swung open revealing a half awake Rudo and Gris, you couldn't help but rush to your adoptive son.
Half the words coming out your mouth made no sense but after seeing what you were shoving at him Rudo couldn't help but stare blankly at the giant hourglass in your hands.
I legit am just rambling at a smooth 2:22 a.m. and knocked out til 6 after getting this out my brain.
YN is gonna have a similar effect on their vital instrument as Remlin where the tool changes to what they need at the time.
This form of it is called the scrying sands where they can see their own memories easiest but can expand to others current whereabouts (will be limited on that, has to be someone they've been in contact with multiple times or are close to mentally).
If someone else touches the vital instrument while active in this form it will show their memories too. And they can guide the sands towards specific memories or let it flow as is.
There is a secondary ability that comes in with healing but it's more specific and can be used directly or on supplies and tools to heal. (I'm trying to make the ability not busted AF)
But anyway hope you enjoy the ramblings of a madman with bouts of insomnia 😘🙂↕️✨
