the essential Saltes of humane Dust | Glowfic Constellation

from-the-deeps

Their guide apparently finds the excitement contagious!

(She does think this is a really cool city herself, which helps.)

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

She feels so alive. She's so happy to be alive. She hugs her fiance a lot.

"Can we see the harbor? Providence has a nice river but I'd like to see the ocean."

from-the-deeps

"Yeah! It's my favorite part. Come on, this's the shortest way..."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"It smells so different. I wasn't expecting that part," she comments when they get there.

from-the-deeps

"Yeah! Stuff smells - weird, away from it? It smells less like fish some places, kinda depends on how many humans there are, but the sea is - just this overwhelming nice."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"Well, that makes sense if your species is originally aquatic."

from-the-deeps

"Yeah! Probably's the same as, like, your own house?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"--I guess. I wouldn't know."

from-the-deeps

Oh no did she say something wrong.

She hums. "Your own house isn't always the place you grew up? Like I had it with mom, and - maybe you have it with Joseph? The ocean smells like - that place you can be who you are."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"--Oh. Yeah."

Joseph Dexter Ward

I-am-not-resigned

"She's estranged from her parents. They don't know she's alive and we don't plan to change that."

from-the-deeps

She nods. "Lots of people aren't really nice, yeah." And then a shrug. "I won't tell anyone."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"That I'm alive, or that I had a troubled childhood?"

from-the-deeps

"Either? Whatever you don't want spread around?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"I was shot in the head, you don't walk away from that without help people don't believe exists. But I appreciate not spreading the troubled childhood thing."

from-the-deeps

Nod. "I get not wanting - tragic childhood tales to define you?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"Yeah! Yeah, exactly."

from-the-deeps

"We'll have to make sure they write us into the history books correctly."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"And the pettier of our enemies into the history books not at all."

from-the-deeps

She laughs. "I think I'll have to give some of mine at least a foot-note."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"Oh?"

from-the-deeps

"The cult, mostly? Like they're definitely part of my story."

with-lilies-and-with-laurel

"Hm, true. How petty are they, though?"

from-the-deeps

"I think they're - they want to be grand but they haven't managed much?"

with-lilies-and-with-laurel