[ river only grins in response to his not-so-subtle accusation, and there it is again: that lightness about her, something bright that had gotten lost in the turmoil of the last year. it's hard to imagine that they've really been here that long, and cassian has been there with her every single step of the way. from the castle to nott to solvunn and now here, lost in the wilds with no one around to pull their strings -
it's like being free, even if only in this moment. beyond a war that is not theirs to fight or the collapse of a sphere that they do not belong to, right now, she's just a girl, playing in the dirt with someone she loves like her own brother.
if a moment is all they have before they wake up from the dream, then this is good enough. it has to be.
so she turns her attention back to the task before her, her hand hovering just over each fruit as she considers them carefully. she's been picking anything she can find that isn't actively oozing or otherwise overly suspect. this is a quiz for herself as much as it is for him. ]
Gotta look beneath the skin. The truth is tricky. If it's too shiny to be true...
[ she mutters absently until she finally picks up one with orange and pink stripes. she holds it up to observe it more closely from each angle before turning back to cassian and speaking in kenari again. ]
Ready or not, here we come.
[ she'll bite into it at the same time he does, eyeing him with a playful smile as she watches. ]
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it's like being free, even if only in this moment. beyond a war that is not theirs to fight or the collapse of a sphere that they do not belong to, right now, she's just a girl, playing in the dirt with someone she loves like her own brother.
if a moment is all they have before they wake up from the dream, then this is good enough. it has to be.
so she turns her attention back to the task before her, her hand hovering just over each fruit as she considers them carefully. she's been picking anything she can find that isn't actively oozing or otherwise overly suspect. this is a quiz for herself as much as it is for him. ]
Gotta look beneath the skin. The truth is tricky. If it's too shiny to be true...
[ she mutters absently until she finally picks up one with orange and pink stripes. she holds it up to observe it more closely from each angle before turning back to cassian and speaking in kenari again. ]
Ready or not, here we come.
[ she'll bite into it at the same time he does, eyeing him with a playful smile as she watches. ]