Second Song ♫ Video (Daemon: Apollod)

[hasitsthorns]

[ An authoritative bark, steely eyes to match the armor worn- ] Feldspar will stay in the rear with the rest of the mages, Reyson on the frontlines with the wolves, and Misto with me to...

[ She falters suddenly. Wolf ears standing tall on her head flatten back in uncertainty. Where are the Morgans, the group she'd been informing as she stepped into a portal towards the oncoming battle? This wasn't- In a blink, memories come careening into her head and cause a startling emotional mish-mash. Names, faces, a year and some change spent in Eudio and Xistentia suddenly competing with the four years from back home. It's a different type of war inside her mind. ] Apollod, [ she suddenly says, looking to the canine that's already recording her return.

Despite herself, she suddenly smiles into the feed. ]

Hey, guys, [ comes a softer tone than before. She crouches down to pet the daemon that's recording, not physically looking a day older than when she left but certainly feeling like it. ] Hopefully I haven't been gone too long.

What'd I miss?

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[cantseame]

[He does linger in the kiss, perhaps taking a little nip of her bottom lip all the same. The presence of her warmth does much to bring him back to the present, banishing the worries from his mind at least for now.]

If we're ever separated again, I promise I'll find you. If I'm not strong enough to do it now, then I will be someday.

[Stealing another kiss, he instead quietly rests his forehead against hers. There's much he wants to ask her, he can sense that something about her is quite different. That could be a side effect of the process that allowed her to return, or something more. It's hard to say, but it's a mystery he will figure out.

For now, though, he wants none of that. Just to feel her there is enough.]

[hasitsthorns]

[ She almost tells him not to make promises that he can't keep, but... Honestly? Rose believes it's one he could. While she doesn't think herself anyone worthy of traversing time and space for, even still, it makes her heart swell to hear that to him she is. ]

I'll hold you to that, [ she answers. And she enjoys the moment same as him. Four years. It's been four years too long since she's taken in his scent and his warmth and everything wonderful about being with him, with-

Vanyel. ] As much as I don't want this to end, [ she starts, half-sighing as she does. ] I think there's someone else we need to see.

[cantseame]

[He nods, understanding without anything more to say.]

You sure it's gonna be a good idea to surprise him outta nowhere like this?

[Ever the (slightly) reasonable one.]

Not that I disagree, we should definitely go see him.

[hasitsthorns]

Honestly, I'll be more surprised if he doesn't know I'm already here and just waiting for me to come home.

[ It had surprised here a little that Vanyel wasn't one of the first voices she heard upon arriving, but- She also can't even imagine what he must've gone through this past week, her just up and disappearing. And not intentionally! ]

We're going to. But tell me, [ she starts, taking his hand in hers. ] How have you been, this past week?