[ she waits - she always waits - for the sin eater's aether to begin to disperse. she cannot take her eyes off of it until she is sure that it is dead, and a part of her.. enjoys it, watching the wretched thing die before her eyes, taking with it all the misery it had felt and spread. there are hundreds of thousands of more where it came from, but still, even the smallest of victories is worth savoring. even if it never feels like enough.
only once the eater begins to shimmer away in a slow burn of light does she turn.
it's not that she isn't happy to see ziva. of course she is. not only is she a familiar face, she is a friend, and while for alisaie lunatia is a fading memory, she has not forgotten. everyone else has, it seems - and it was more than a little strange at first - but those she had known in lunatia who had also hailed from hydaelyn are flung far from her now. back in eorzea, a world away, and she has had a very long, very arduous year in which to allow the memory to decay. she's hopped around so many damned worlds by now that it feels near enough to habit now.
nevertheless, she is passing shocked to see ziva here - how on earth had she arrived from the first? that they had shared the star would not surprise her, eorzea was filled to the brim with bright and capable adventurers last she checked, but to run into ziva here, in a place like this..? crystal exarch and her few fellow scions aside, there are none on this shard who should know of eorzea at all.
and ziva.. ziva seems to recognize her.
okay, just hang on here, her brain is struggling to make sense of this. ]
Ziva? You.. what in the world are you doing here? How -
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only once the eater begins to shimmer away in a slow burn of light does she turn.
it's not that she isn't happy to see ziva. of course she is. not only is she a familiar face, she is a friend, and while for alisaie lunatia is a fading memory, she has not forgotten. everyone else has, it seems - and it was more than a little strange at first - but those she had known in lunatia who had also hailed from hydaelyn are flung far from her now. back in eorzea, a world away, and she has had a very long, very arduous year in which to allow the memory to decay. she's hopped around so many damned worlds by now that it feels near enough to habit now.
nevertheless, she is passing shocked to see ziva here - how on earth had she arrived from the first? that they had shared the star would not surprise her, eorzea was filled to the brim with bright and capable adventurers last she checked, but to run into ziva here, in a place like this..? crystal exarch and her few fellow scions aside, there are none on this shard who should know of eorzea at all.
and ziva.. ziva seems to recognize her.
okay, just hang on here, her brain is struggling to make sense of this. ]
Ziva? You.. what in the world are you doing here? How -