Reassurance, and he mourned with her, the grief of partings, the way one is caretaker of a land, that one is to stand with a place and make it better, stronger, to purge it of a century of ills and let it live again. A mixing of Yiling, the Burial Grounds within his past, and her woods, and their love for her.
Warmth, affection, support: what he can send her way as he walked them onward, through the chaos that was the void, until the Voidtrecker Express gained a sense of visibility, a sense of destination, inevitable.
Foot on steel, or some other metal, and then they're there: the train, the two of them, and someone else, but for Nell it wasn't meant to be a lingering impression. Spirit returned to its tether midpoint, everything faded to golden light, before she would be standing in the luggage carriage, perhaps around others recently regained, perhaps alone.
Her woods, a world away, hundreds of worlds distant, would wait, even as her heart broke, even as it wept with a forest's ancient means, cast in shadow.
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Warmth, affection, support: what he can send her way as he walked them onward, through the chaos that was the void, until the Voidtrecker Express gained a sense of visibility, a sense of destination, inevitable.
Foot on steel, or some other metal, and then they're there: the train, the two of them, and someone else, but for Nell it wasn't meant to be a lingering impression. Spirit returned to its tether midpoint, everything faded to golden light, before she would be standing in the luggage carriage, perhaps around others recently regained, perhaps alone.
Her woods, a world away, hundreds of worlds distant, would wait, even as her heart broke, even as it wept with a forest's ancient means, cast in shadow.