I just find it unfair you get to call me another name while -
[ She swallows her gasp as he pulls her towards him. Perhaps someone else would stumble or grow more flustered on her feet, but Allumette?
Her feet move with him. Her hand goes to his shoulder like she was practiced at dance though she'd only ever seen it from afar, always too busy saving the star. Too busy working with her free company. Too busy mentoring, creating, leading - no time for something like dancing or remembering. Her body knows these steps and she moves with him just as easily as breathing, with a grace that is both her own and not quite. Her eyes widen when she realizes it, almost pressed right against him in this dance, only a handful of inches away and needing to peer up at him as he speaks.
Twelve damn it, her face feels like it's burning. ]
Don't... don't say that all of a sudden.
[ Her heart held mixed emotions like a cauldron soon to overflow. She danced to a melody only they knew, and she knew it. Part of her wanted to hate that she knew it all - it didn't feel like her, but like she was the vessel with which he could bring life to these memories again - and yet every single memory felt embedded with her own heart. Aphrodite was her but not. Aphrodite was her past and Allumette was the future, not different people, but simply at different times. Every single instance since was the same. And yet... ]
Maybe in the past, but not here. We're on opposite sides, of a sort.
[ Funny she says that now after insisting constantly to the Scions that they needed to put those differences aside momentarily to listen. ]
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[ She swallows her gasp as he pulls her towards him. Perhaps someone else would stumble or grow more flustered on her feet, but Allumette?
Her feet move with him. Her hand goes to his shoulder like she was practiced at dance though she'd only ever seen it from afar, always too busy saving the star. Too busy working with her free company. Too busy mentoring, creating, leading - no time for something like dancing or remembering. Her body knows these steps and she moves with him just as easily as breathing, with a grace that is both her own and not quite. Her eyes widen when she realizes it, almost pressed right against him in this dance, only a handful of inches away and needing to peer up at him as he speaks.
Twelve damn it, her face feels like it's burning. ]
Don't... don't say that all of a sudden.
[ Her heart held mixed emotions like a cauldron soon to overflow. She danced to a melody only they knew, and she knew it. Part of her wanted to hate that she knew it all - it didn't feel like her, but like she was the vessel with which he could bring life to these memories again - and yet every single memory felt embedded with her own heart. Aphrodite was her but not. Aphrodite was her past and Allumette was the future, not different people, but simply at different times. Every single instance since was the same. And yet... ]
Maybe in the past, but not here. We're on opposite sides, of a sort.
[ Funny she says that now after insisting constantly to the Scions that they needed to put those differences aside momentarily to listen. ]