[ It's weird to say that silence can be loud, but everyone's had their ears start ringing at least once. That's how it normally applies for his Bonds - there is silence, yes, but if you go still and listen, you can hear them all. An ambient breeze, now infinitely stifled, as if someone hiding their breathing. Two soullights, both helpful and hopeful, but one skitters along faster than the other. The steady pulse of a heartbeat his own beats in perfect unison with; has been for nearly a year.
This entire above paragraph doesn't matter. There is only Silence. No breeze, no lights, no heartbeat. Lion probably said something, but the sound doesn't get across - air density is too thin. You need an atmosphere to send sound, right? It's all just waves and pressure applied- focus, there's still one line to follow back. The heartbeat is gone, but her magic still flows (no, stagnant, like everything else) and the Contract is leaned on very slightly to adjust the tuning; send a message over.
It only gets across Maya? Are you- before the line snaps. And the world goes profoundly silent.
Lion still gets an answer. He falls to one knee the exact moment half the lights in Aspen go dark. ]
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This entire above paragraph doesn't matter. There is only Silence. No breeze, no lights, no heartbeat. Lion probably said something, but the sound doesn't get across - air density is too thin. You need an atmosphere to send sound, right? It's all just waves and pressure applied- focus, there's still one line to follow back. The heartbeat is gone, but her magic still flows (no, stagnant, like everything else) and the Contract is leaned on very slightly to adjust the tuning; send a message over.
It only gets across Maya? Are you- before the line snaps. And the world goes profoundly silent.
Lion still gets an answer. He falls to one knee the exact moment half the lights in Aspen go dark. ]