Timestamp: 67th day of Summer Season, 513 AV Worship needs no venue. Curled in the secrecy of her basement apartment, caught in the threads of her own emotions caged from days long past, Litani sat on her bed with her arms around her knees and gazed at her harp in silence. She knew they’d hear her here, if she played. She knew Alder would hear her, Lysa would hear her. She knew she was alone, but she knew they’d hear all the same. But Laviku would hear. And perhaps, just perhaps, her King would hear as well. In silence, she rose and crossed the room to the still strings that so called to her... Even after all this time, still she felt him. Still she felt the way he’d marked her skin, claimed her, pried his touch underneath Laviku’s caress and left her with that exquisite scar... Her fingers fell upon the strings with all the wordless desire that their hauntings had conjured; he’d swirled inside her head for weeks, years, but more often suddenly, always hiding behind her thoughts as the moment neared when she would meet him... a moment that she, as yet, knew nothing. But just perhaps... Fate would one day be kind. The voice of the harp wandered with her own, its silken music drowning out the twisting way that her heart-born voice wandered through the words of her mind... Looking up from underneath, fractured moonlight on the sea... Reflections still look the same to me as before I went under And it’s peaceful in the deep, ‘Cause things are where you cannot breathe - no need to pray, no need to speak Now I am under all... And it’s breaking over me, a thousand miles down to the sea... Found the place to rest my head... Never let me go, never let me go. And the arms of the ocean are carrying me, and all this devotion was rushing out of me... and the crashes are heaven for a sinner like me.. But the arms of the ocean deliver me Though the pressure’s hard to take, it’s the only way I can escape, seems a heavy choice to make but now I am under all... And it’s breaking over me, a thousand miles down to the sea Found the place to rest my head... Never let me go.. And the arms of the ocean are carrying me... all this devotion was rushing out of me... and the crashes are heaven for a sinner like me... but the arms of the ocean deliver me And it over... and I’m going under But I’m not giving up! I’m just... giving in... So cold and so sweet... The arms of the ocean, so sweet and so cold, and all this devotion I never knew at all. And the crashes are heaven for sinner, released... And the arms of the ocean... ….deliver me. Never let me go. And it’s over and I’m going under, but I’m not giving up..! I’m just giving in... So cold and so sweet... (OOC- every shred of credit goes to Florence and the Machine for creating such a breathtakingly perfect song!) |