#ahlis: stfu

[ahlis-xiv]

Sea’s WoL 30 Day Challenge - Jan 7th: Revenant

Her first ‘night’ sleeping in her room on Norvrandt had little to give in terms of actual rest. Sleep evaded her, and while the bed was comfortable and the accommodations more than adequate there was that ever-present sense of foreboding that added to the tension of being on an entirely different world altogether.

She turned to her other side, away from the heavy curtains that covered the window in the center of her quarters, and her mind wandered helplessly. Earlier on she had a “guest” of sorts appear, one that was utterly unexpected given the circumstances of, well, everything. Their parting had been a tragic, albeit a somewhat hopeful one...and yet in light of it all, she had come to see the aftermath of the ill fated world that had been his home.

Not like she expected any sort of happy or warm welcome, of course. Not like she could show or introduce him to anybody either: he was quite dead. Yet to see him there, very much experiencing the same shock at being perceived at all, almost felt as if he was just as real and present as when they first crossed paths on the Source. Ethereal or not, Ardbert somehow felt very much alive.

Which made the sensation that he could arrive whenever he pleased all the more unsettling. Ahlis pulled her covers further up and over herself, desperate to sleep.