☉NARIEL
All day long, not even Thora was allowed entry to my chamber. I had barred the door against him and flung myself onto my bed upon our return. And though I wanted to feel nothing, my blood continued to throb in my ears for what felt like an eternity.
His body had tensed like a drawn bow when I implored him to return me home, and I’d seen pain and sorrow in his eyes. Saw it and didn't care, not as those emotions were trying to devour me, twisting and breaking my chest, my bones. Not as the thought that I might have never learned of this bore a hole in my mind, and my heart—my heart clenched, so viciously that I feared it might give out then and there.
He had seen them, felt them—all my emotions and more.
And even now, his aura still dawdles by the door since I had shut it in his
