"Alkebu-lan......how do you not.....I mean how do you keep your sense of self? Living so long? I didnt---being immortal wasn't exactly the plan." (from chunhua)
There were memories which stirred; ones of screaming into empty white, weeping, tearing up hair and skin. How many times did her shrieks only answer in silence? How many times did she mold illusionary worlds from her insanity? How many times did she craft a desert with mountain in the distance? How many times did she walk to it, with fractured ghosts whispering in ears. Sometimes sweetly, others in harsh retribution.
It was countless, as the grains of sands on earth.
Old, unspoken truths of bygone eras drummed within her heartbeat. The wrath of forgotten gods, sundering of flesh and unsaid vow to hide one's self echoed.
No matter how much time passed, baboon would not escape it.
All this buzzed beneath countenance unreadable; a trait she mastered for centuries. However foreign one did not look at other and instead opted to rivet golden gaze towards skies above. Storms clouds were forming and petrichor filled air.
"I did not. I merely rebuild." Lips would leave it, at that.