#dadscole and daughterrora...

[tea-of-destiny]

🎲 ethereal for the prompts! good luck with your appointment!

She was beautiful; ethereal; otherworldly.

She was so young--a face full of so much innocence in the midst of an ancient slumber, in spite of the life she must have known in the time before.

She was the key to all that he had dreamed of for so long.

She was… not even remotely what he had expected to find when his search turned up a lead in the northernmost mountains of the globe.

He rested his palm against the frozen barrier between the two of them, feeling in turn the ice around his heart thaw ever so much.

She appeared about the right age, fair skinned, with the same long waves cascading down her shoulders.

…She reminded him of the life he had known in the time before, too.

Gingerly, as if the gesture alone would disturb her, the man reached into his pocket and produced the transmitter linking him to the pilot of his airship.

"Raymond, cancel our flight out for this evening," Descole instructed quietly. "There's something else I must take care of first."