They looked for decades, and she suffered for centuries more.
The gun she has slipped away into the belt of her dress, and the small sheathed knife at her breast reassures her that she is not defenseless. There has not been a time when she had feared physical harm from Yusuf or Nico, but knowing the weapon is close by stays her urges for violence. For now.
Her lips curl at the sound of those names - names of people they have grown into, another reminder of the passage of time.
She comes forward hesitantly, like a nervous bird, glancing between the both of them, ready to scatter at the first sign of movement. Step by step until she's close enough to touch them, and she reaches to brush her fingers against Nico's cheek. She's not sure what she had been hoping for, but the confirmation that they are real is both overwhelming and met with a dull emptiness. Her eyes shift to Yusuf to watch him as her fingers shift down to Nico's jaw, then further down so her thumb bumps over the bob of his throat.
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Date: 2021-06-06 11:20 pm (UTC)The gun she has slipped away into the belt of her dress, and the small sheathed knife at her breast reassures her that she is not defenseless. There has not been a time when she had feared physical harm from Yusuf or Nico, but knowing the weapon is close by stays her urges for violence. For now.
Her lips curl at the sound of those names - names of people they have grown into, another reminder of the passage of time.
She comes forward hesitantly, like a nervous bird, glancing between the both of them, ready to scatter at the first sign of movement. Step by step until she's close enough to touch them, and she reaches to brush her fingers against Nico's cheek. She's not sure what she had been hoping for, but the confirmation that they are real is both overwhelming and met with a dull emptiness. Her eyes shift to Yusuf to watch him as her fingers shift down to Nico's jaw, then further down so her thumb bumps over the bob of his throat.