❛ i find it fitting。 ❜ mold spores! mold spores! an affront to his character if he’s ever heard one! ( and he has heard several completely unfounded! pronouncements about his character, all so light as to tremble like a desperate leaf to a branch, that were oriented as defamation ) but wind does not carry the spore for nothing, and injured pride spreads so thin as to fade away, back from whence it came; the eery darkness ( he swears! ) she must have hidden … somewhere …
she beckons。 he comes, easily, as a droplet in a river; lost to the whims of the tide itself, deep & cast away into the ocean。 one step。 two steps, three steps, until table taps against layered guild clothing。 as of now, his pack lies, dormant and resting, by the tent。 he must let his shoulders rest。 energy is, as it is, something to be conserved。 to his fortune, his restlessness has already spanned the land, causes him no discomfort now to simply stand and watch her; she, her natural intellect, innate smothering aura which seems, always, to swirl and steep in his saliva for just a bit too long。
but the keeness to speak! that, in itself, is something volo has yet to tamper down after his three decades。 if he must wait to speak, it never lasts for long。 words seem to gather in the tips of his fingers, itch inside his palms, yearning; painful。 she focuses only on her drink。
a subtle movement; a lean down, balanced of forefinger and thumb on the table, tantalisingly close to her plate。 ❛ i’ll wait。 ❜
hunger pangs in his very being, a deity of deceit &&. distrust, standing idly by as the mistress of time displaces her drink two centimeters off to her left. unamused, she looks to him, corners his thoughts with a mere jest of eyes narrowing. why the forlorn look, dearest? she beckons with her gaze a mere plight of the man, how lips turn wicked in a simple twitch of muscle.
why do you yearn for her attention so?
“ well go on, ” purrs in tandem with the settling of porcelain upon cup, set aside beverage for proper dictation of intentions. skirt shifts beneath the waves of wind passing between seated &&. standing forms, brushes the muk of caked boots, allows dress hem to lift -- to let her delicate shoe rise to ghost along outer shin in greeting. a sign of affection, a testament that though she may not rush to his cravings, she will always be there to settle his scores. retreat does her heel, back beneath the fabrics of darkness, of cogs turning behind clockwork.
if he’s to stand there like a simpering child wanting something without the use of words, what more can she do? gloves move to fold under her jaw, rests her weary chin upon lithe fingers that long since woven their threads of poetry. glossy eyes blink, flush lashes for fresh air upon gaze, revitalize her vision for a brighter sunlit view of her telltale merchant.
“ you can wait for however long you like, volo. my focus is here &&. now ; if you do not wish to sample opportunity, i’ll shift it to more valuable things. i won’t waste my patience on someone wishing to hold their tongue. ”