6h • ✍️ Daily Write
3/28
Continuing the story from yesterday...
Then his eyes widened, fixed on a point over her left shoulder. A gasp from Helian behind her was enough to make her turn slowly around, but more than that, her skin prickled. Magic.
Time seemed to slow. She noticed first a shimmering light beyond the fire, somehow brighter than those leaping flames. Then as she continued the slow turn of her body, taking in every tiny detail of her surroundings as an intense array of sound and colour, her eyes leapt to the startling aqua eyes of a woman. She stood oozing beauty and serenity. Her red hair cascaded around her as if it were fluid, reaching down to her knees. She wore a full length dress that left nothing to the imagination, the same colour as her eyes. She shimmered, glowed, radiated, Kintra couldn’t find the word. It was all of those and more.
And as she stared the woman fixed her with a gaze of such love, such power, yet such intensity that if she hadn’t been seated, she would have dropped to the floor. Her heartbeat became too loud in her chest, wildfire rose, not in protection, but in greeting, pooling beneath her rib cage. She wanted to laugh, to cry, to dance, to kneel. She wanted to expand out of her body in all directions.
Those eyes slipped into a different form. They filled more of the woman’s face, the pupil becoming a dark slit, and then her face, scales glowing from under the skin. A dragon forming before her eyes, the woman superimposed over the top.
Kintra had no idea how long this woman held her. Time disappeared. Then she spoke.
'I have waited so long for you. For you both. You were promised. And now we can begin.' (this is in italics, the woman is not speaking out loud).
And the spell broke, so suddenly that Kintra felt she had been thrown back into her body. She fell from her seat, crashing into Helian as he tumbled beside her. Farron’s hands grabbed her, pulling her back up.
‘Are you Ok?’
She couldn’t speak. She looked at the woman who had taken a seat across from her, beautiful, but very human. She no longer looked at Kintra but spoke to the man playing guitar. He nodded and smiled at her and his music flowed into a new melody.
Helian, looking as shaken as she felt, regained his seat. He glanced round, his eyes wide.
‘She spoke to you?’
Kintra nodded. He looked away. There was nothing more to say.
‘Hey. What happened?’
She placed her hand on Farron’s leg. ‘I can’t explain. Not yet anyway. I have no words.’
He handed her the tea. A faint scent of mint and lemon rose from the cup. She sipped it, closing her eyes and allowing the aroma to envelop her. Farron wrapped the blanket back around her shoulders, along with a comforting arm.
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