( Is anything truly serendipity in a realm made of wonder and magic? There's an equivalent amount of sadness and whimsy as there is darkness and trickery in the home of the fae; things are as beautiful as they are wrenching, as precious as they can be deadly. Perhaps it's that. Perhaps it's the magic Erik's been given, or perhaps it's the pain in his heart.
Or perhaps it's nothing, just coincidence, or that the trail they're traveling is actually a game trail commonly tread by several local creatures. It's impossible to know.
Laura is enraptured with the entire experience, the feeling of soft fur under her fingertips, the quiet, fragile feeling of the moment and how hushed the atmosphere has become to accommodate it. After a few stretching heartbeats, she flicks her eyes up to Erik to see what his reaction is to it β she's expecting one of those smiles he sometimes levels at her.
Not tears.
Her hand falters, dropping β and the doe pulls away, crossing the path to the forest on the opposite side. She's disappointed to see it go, and disappointed to watch the buck begin to stride after it with grace and majesty, until both are gone from her sight, then her hearing, then her smell.
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Or perhaps it's nothing, just coincidence, or that the trail they're traveling is actually a game trail commonly tread by several local creatures. It's impossible to know.
Laura is enraptured with the entire experience, the feeling of soft fur under her fingertips, the quiet, fragile feeling of the moment and how hushed the atmosphere has become to accommodate it. After a few stretching heartbeats, she flicks her eyes up to Erik to see what his reaction is to it β she's expecting one of those smiles he sometimes levels at her.
Not tears.
Her hand falters, dropping β and the doe pulls away, crossing the path to the forest on the opposite side. She's disappointed to see it go, and disappointed to watch the buck begin to stride after it with grace and majesty, until both are gone from her sight, then her hearing, then her smell.
Only then does she finally break the quiet. )