#MY LAPTOP FINALLY WORKS SO I CAN WRITE AND POST THIS TO DESTROY YOU :MATERIASWAG:

[maidenkissed]

@lunarnoire : "i had a dream and you were in it... you were in the darkness with me. will you dance with me - here in this darkness?" (I WAS THINKING OF AMOUR ETERNAL AGAIN :SADBATMAN:)

he hadn't entered her dreams at all for the past few days, and that's what shocks him the most: he'd thought mentions of him would cease the moment his maiden had become like this. after all, he is a priest of elysion—he is light whereas she became the moon hidden by the clouds, a moon that he can no longer see at full beauty because she's so dim now. she's so dim, and he misses the incandescent glow of her pure heart, of all her beautiful dreams.

helios sometimes wonder how they got here, but at the same time, the answer is clear and obvious and there's this unspoken distance he has to deal with—this boundary line separating him from his maiden and the lady he is with now. with his maiden, he could usually pick up whenever she called out for him; he'd respond to the earnest feelings in her heart that wants him to be with her, and the kiss he gave her was one that silently promised she would still have him if everyone else in the world left her. that will not happen, though. helios still believe she's surrounded by love, but she is too clouded by her doubts to realize it—after all, she would not be black lady if she knew.

black lady is still an enigma to him: she is obviously taller, older, but also more broken and tragic. whenever he looks at her face, he thinks of his little maiden and he'd feel something ache in his heart, like a piece of chipped glass is wedged in his chest. helios wants to ask how she dreams of him, whether or not the current him is someone she can see herself with, like how his maiden envisioned flying around the world with him. is the dream-him still the same as he is now? or is he... different? perhaps he was also clad in black like her? what version of 'helios' does black lady want to dance with her?

but he realizes that she's asking him that, with no extra questions or comments about the dream-helios. she just asks him to dance with her, and maybe that means a part of her—the maiden—still thinks about him, the helios who came into her life to look for a maiden with a beautiful dream. is is silly of him to wonder if he is the light that keeps her lingering? maybe... maybe he can still play that role for her.

❛  ...i shall, my lady,  ❜ he says, finally, and gently places his hand over hers. he touches her like how the sun softly coats the world in light. ❛  we can dance for as long as you like.  ❜

after all, this world of darkness only holds the two of them here. this whole place is like their secret, and even the sun can hide behind the clouds at times. for his maiden— lady, he will go behind the clouds with her if that's what she wants.