Private Reunion and Reconciliation

[Alina Grayson]

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TAG: Lunara Azure
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(OOC Note: Picking up from Old Social Thread)​

Alina raised her eyes as she stared out over the horizon and the town in the distance, she could fell a pull toward it unknown what it was but a familiar sensation overtook her and her eyes narrowed slightly as she looked around her first scanning the surroundings to make sure she was well and truly alone, the young blonde woman lifted a hand up above the ground in front of her and the magical forces that she had been trained to wield answered and began to swirl around her as the ice and snow were borne up upon the wind around her, a complicated spell and powerful enough to be noticed by any paying attention, though tonight most peoples senses would be dulled by drink and food.​

A white light would flash and open before Alina, she would simply walk through the light and find herself on the outskirts of the village, tucked conveniently behind one of the small buildings, the gate would snap closed behind her as quickly as it had appeared quickly drawing her hood she slipped around the corner and into the crowd moving through those celebrating and making merry as she approached the gala at its center, she paused a moment to scan the crowd, her eyes moving rapidly before falling on a tall white-haired woman with a bit of blonde in her hair.​

She just paused and watched in disbelief as this individual moved toward the bar it had been some time but there was no mistaking who she saw, who she had felt, and why she had felt so compelled to leave the silence of the mountaintop behind. Slowly she moved through the crowd as if concerned her sudden appearance might spook her elder sister away when she was at last near enough, she spoke ever so softly just in case she was wrong "....Lunara?"​

 

[Lunara Azure]

The party was still in full swing, the sound of music and laughter following the light that spilled out of the open doors and windows of the ballroom behind her. It was a party that seemed like so many that had come before, like so many that would come after, the groups swirling back and forth, people pulled along by the invisible threads of power. It was almost like watching leaves caught up in a stream, pulled along by a current they had no control over. In this case it was power, influence, those invisible strings that drove the ambition and drive of most beings in the galaxy.

She’d been there before, been caught up in the same current before, pulled along by strings of influence and power. She’d been one of the pillars of the community, the rocks around which the others had gathered before being pulled along. A time in the ancient past, a past she had put behind her. A time before a man died in alone on the street, his life’s blood reflecting the flames that burned the city that he’d loved. A time before a family had cried out in fear to ears that weren’t there to hear them. A mother and a father had gathered their children as flames had licked at their bodies, consuming the house that they had worked so hard to earn.

A glass of wine hung loosely in delicate fingers as Lunara turned, glancing back at the open door to the ballroom, at the press of bodies that moved inside the building the smiles and happiness. For a moment she was transported along to another world, one pulled out of her memory. Familiar faces that she hadn’t seen for years, the familiar smiles and nods, a familiar mop of brown-hair pushing through the crowd. That grin that had always lifted her worries and carried them away, a raised hand in greeting, a movement she couldn’t help but mirror. That knowing smile before the scene shattered like a mirror, shards flying and falling, fading away back to the realm of memories they’d been conjured from leaving her standing there, a hand half raised.

Alone again, a room filled with strangers laughing while she looked on. So utterly alone.

Lips quirked, the only sign of the sadness that settled on the elfin woman, those lessons of her past as strong as ever. You didn’t show weakness, didn’t show them where you hurt. There were jackals, hyenas out in the world and she didn’t intend to fall victim to any of them. Never again.

A wineglass lifted to her lips before the woman discarded it, the sound of shattering crystal filling the air as she threw it to the side, whirling through the shadows as she let her feet carry her out of the garden and through the ballroom to the bar. She didn’t know where she was going, just not here, far from the spectres that haunted her.

“…Lunara?”

The ghosts that had followed her out into to the bar, that wouldn’t stop haunting her footsteps.

“You’re dead.”

Alina Grayson

 

[Alina Grayson]

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TAG: Lunara Azure
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Of all the possible reactions Alina had expected that.... That was not one of them, she blinked a few times, her soft blue eyes staring at her sisters back and titled her head slightly before a wry smile appeared on her face. "Uh nope. Hold on let me check.." she made a show of turning over her wrist and checking her pulse waiting a few seconds longer than necessary... "Uh yup definitely not dead. Neither is anybody else by the way if you are wondering." she thought about just grabbing Lunara and giving her a hug that would most likely convince her, but it also might be a good way to get killed for real. Instead she settled for careful tapping of Lunara's right shoulder. "No ghosts I promise, just your little sister alive and well. No tricks." she pulled her hand back and honestly prepared to defend herself, if Lunara perceived this as a trick or a threat it would not be a fun reunion after all.

She also took a half a step back, self preservation instincts taking over. Obviously Lunara had been through a lot to not even trust her own senses or perhaps it was simply too much alcohol dulling those senses. Whichever the case may be she now could only wait and see what would come of the sudden revelation that not all was lost as she seemed to think.

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[Lunara Azure]

The ghosts just wouldn’t leave her alone, one torture after another, nail after nail driven into her beating heart. It wasn’t enough that her family, all the ones she loved were dead, lost to the passing of time and her regrets. So many regrets. The girl in front of her looked just like her sister down to that errant strand of hair that hung down her face, drifting in front of her crystal blue eyes like a strand of straw. She’d always teased her about it, as sisters were wont to do, nights spent curled up by the fire watching Alina shaping her hair through one permutation and another to find something she was happy with. But that was gone, the house, the fireplace burned to the ground, the mirror shattered into pieces, taking the memories and dreams the family had had along with it.

The blonde-haired woman’s face seemed to drain of blood, pale skin so white it was almost porcelain as she stumbled towards the girl. Almost against her will one hand drifted up, stretching out towards the girl before she drew them back, fingers clutched against her chest as she shook her head, her hair falling out of the coif she’d wrapped it in for the night, drifting around her head like a cloak.

“I went back…I saw the bodies the wreck…you can’t be here…I…I…”

She’d killed everyone who crossed her path, those streets that had betrayed her that had borne witness to the death of her dreams. The cold streets that had just stood by while those she loved had breathed their last. She’d torn them up, left a trail of chaos and death in her wake as she sought revenge on those who’d wronged her. Revenge that had left her empty…cold.

“You aren’t real, you can’t be real.”

Otherwise…what had it all been for?

Alina Grayson

 

[Alina Grayson]

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TAG: Lunara Azure
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Tears began to well in the young woman's eyes, as she watched Lunara at this point she stepped forward quickly and wrapped her arms around her sister and laid her head on her sisters chest. "I'm real Luna, I swear I'm real..." as a child Alina had a hard time with her name and resorted to calling her sister Luna and over time it simply became a term of endearment for her elder sister but only Alina ever called her that.

When Lunara questioned about the bodies and the wreckage she shook her head slightly "All I can tell you, is that when they came for us. I fought to buy mom and dad time to run. Our house was destroyed in the fight and I got hurt pretty bad but I won. After all, I'm your sister I can't lose so easily can I?" still clinging to her sister tears started to roll, she didn't know everything she had been through how could she she hadn't known where Lunara had gone or what she had done. All she knew is that here in her arms at this moment was her sister that she had been traveling the galaxy looking to find.

"I know its sudden Luna, you thought us all dead... I understand but you're family is alive. That's a good thing isn't it?" the younger blonde haired girl looked up at Lunara water still gathering in her eyes and her nose slightly red from crying, how many times had Lunara seen Alina like this over the years?

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[Lunara Azure]

R E U N I O N

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How many times had the ghosts taunted her, her own mind creating images and reflections to torture her, her ghosts, her chains. Constant companions that would not let her forget what had passed, what she had done. The people she'd let down, the planet she'd left in ashes. They were always right there, just out of reach, the shadows of her past, laughing, taunting her. Everytime she'd reach for them, the laughing smiling memories they'd shatter, flaying her with sharp shards of glass leaving behind the dead bodies she'd seen or that she imagined. Judgemental eyes tracking her, following her. Judging her for every small pleasure, every secret smile.

For a moment when she'd arrived back on Zernia Lunara had lost her mind, lost herself to the madness, the darkness that beckoned, that clarion call for revenge. It had been so easy, it had felt so right. For her family who had been slaughtered, for the loved ones she'd lost there had to be...payment. It wasn't justice, she'd never tried to call it that, to explain it away. It had been revenge, an act to assauge her guilt, her pain. She didn't care who had suffered, those responsible would pay regardless of the cost, after all the citizens had just stood by while her family burned, while her husband was cut down in the street. They had accepted their new rulers and that had made them complicit, had driven away any softness she'd once felt for the citizens. The ones hse'd once sworn to give her life to protect...the ones who had turned on her, who had cost her everything she'd held precious.

Only...not everything was lost.

Pale hands reached up gingerly as Alina clutched at her, a hesitant touch, as if the girl might fall apart, might shatter under her touch like hse had so many times before. But she was warm...real. She didn't canish, didn't morph. That hand touched the girl's back before bouncing off and then settling on it again. Arms sliding around Alina's frame as Lunara clutched her tight, holding her close.

She was alive...her sister. She wasn't alone.

A sob shook the master's frame, hot tears streaming down her cheeks as she buried her face in her sister's hair.

She was alive.

She still smelled the same.

Lunara's arms tightened around her sister, unwilling, unable to let her go as she shook her head, a fresh wave of sobs shaking her.

"I killed them Lina...I killed all of them."

Alina Grayson

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[Alina Grayson]

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TAG: Lunara Azure
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She felt the hesitance in the embrace at first but it only made her cling tighter to her sister and when Lunara finally realized she hadn't lost everything she finally felt her big sister's arms wrap around her followed by her tears falling on her blonde head. Alina at that point had barely been holding everything in cried into her sister's chest.

She heard her say that she killed them all and simply nodded as she held her close she spoke through soft sobs "You aren't the only one Luna, when they came I killed them. And the ones who came after and anyone who would have been a threat to our family. I never wanted to hurt anybody. But I had to, just like you"

 

[Lunara Azure]

R E U N I O N

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Alina’s words were like spikes of cold iron punched through Lunara’s core, tearing at a soul that had already been stretched more than it should have been. More than anyone deserved to be.

Her sister had always been a precious child, kind to everyone she’d met, without question. It hadn’t surprised Lunara when Alina had followed her into the church, access to the force or not. It was the life, the vocation that would suit her better than anyone that Lunara had ever known.

She should never have been forced to kill those men, yet another person that Lunara had let down, another failure to add to her tally. It seemed never-ending, the number of people she’d failed, an insurmountable cliff that loomed above her, trapping her in its shadows.

The woman’s arms clutched at Alina tighter, unwilling to destroy what little faith her sister had in her, that last link to her past. Only, she didn’t want to lie, to hide anymore.

“No, that’s not it…I didn’t just kill the people who attacked me. I killed everyone. The acolytes, my allies, anyone caught in the crossfire. I didn’t care…I just wanted them to stop, to die. Everyone on the planet. They’d left them…they’d left him alone in the street. I wanted them to pay, to bleed, to suffer like I did, to feel the fire that those I loved did. I just didn’t care anymore, I still don’t.”

The planet had burned, the innocents caught in the palace had died along with the acolytes to salve her anger…a task at which it had failed. The anger still burned in the depths of her soul, a wave of uncontrollable anger that informed her every moment, her every action.

Alina Grayson

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