'Addie' the ghost says in a flicker of the Fade- smiling and bright and warm- flat and empty and branded both. Urging her to go before she's caught and sent to the Senior Enchanters again-
To go before she's caught and killed.
It'd given her a scrap of raw, ragged hope that night and she clings and shudders, curled inward in a tight ball around the hollow where Purrelden sleeps in a warm, thrumming puddle of fur and pillows. It hurt then to hear it, hurt worse to think of it, aches to dream of it. Having that smile, having him here. Supporting her, letting her talk, pointing out flaws in her arguments, reminding her to be Addie and not just the Enchanter LeBlanc-
Adelaide, she hears, and starts awake with a sharp twitch away from that hand, eyes wide and damp and wild for the moment it takes her to place herself.
Reasons she sleeps alone and wakes without intervention.
no subject
To go before she's caught and killed.
It'd given her a scrap of raw, ragged hope that night and she clings and shudders, curled inward in a tight ball around the hollow where Purrelden sleeps in a warm, thrumming puddle of fur and pillows. It hurt then to hear it, hurt worse to think of it, aches to dream of it. Having that smile, having him here. Supporting her, letting her talk, pointing out flaws in her arguments, reminding her to be Addie and not just the Enchanter LeBlanc-
Adelaide, she hears, and starts awake with a sharp twitch away from that hand, eyes wide and damp and wild for the moment it takes her to place herself.
Reasons she sleeps alone and wakes without intervention.
Reasons her students leave her to it.