02-20-2019, 04:21 PM
Nova was in heaven. He loved attention and Thalia's quip about him being a drama queen made him smile wider despite the topic of losing limbs was broached. He supposed he was a drama queen - his father certainly thought so. The darkness threatened to descend upon him at the thought of his father but he pushed it away and focused on the chipper woman in front of him.
Her order mimicked his own with the addition of the potentially shareable cakes - and something for Nova. Nova would have been happy with a cake. The growing pup ate everything in sight including things he shouldn't. The waitress left and Nox smiled. "I bet the customers loved you here."
The assorted array of sketchbooks were in disarray and Nox picked one and pulled it closer. Each picture he looked at with awe. The skill she possessed was amazing. "And your stuff just started selling?" He found it unbelievable. Everything looked fantastical, like someone who was illustrating a story book, but he knew Thal saw things that were real.
A man with 'golden' eyes and wolves stood with dark shadows in the background. Nox recognized the arch that the Ascendancy built weeks ago. Of course the Ijiraq was among them. Pictures of things Nox didn't even know what they were. Nox flipped each page with care and diligence. Each one had details Nox could only imagine could come from horrid dreams or things out of fantasy. But he lived a horror show himself so not as far fetched as what others might believe.
Each page pulled him deeper and deeper into the drawings, his coffee forgotten.
Nox flipped the page. His heart beat faster, he couldn't breathe. The world stopped, there was nothing but image staring back at him. A man with a flaming sword facing off against three unnatural dogs. Three corpses on the ground, a ghostly shadow of a girl dripping blood. His nightmare stared him in the face. Nox muttered one word, "How?"
His mind tumbled with questions, but his body was frozen in fear, in anguish. How could she see his nightmares?
Her order mimicked his own with the addition of the potentially shareable cakes - and something for Nova. Nova would have been happy with a cake. The growing pup ate everything in sight including things he shouldn't. The waitress left and Nox smiled. "I bet the customers loved you here."
The assorted array of sketchbooks were in disarray and Nox picked one and pulled it closer. Each picture he looked at with awe. The skill she possessed was amazing. "And your stuff just started selling?" He found it unbelievable. Everything looked fantastical, like someone who was illustrating a story book, but he knew Thal saw things that were real.
A man with 'golden' eyes and wolves stood with dark shadows in the background. Nox recognized the arch that the Ascendancy built weeks ago. Of course the Ijiraq was among them. Pictures of things Nox didn't even know what they were. Nox flipped each page with care and diligence. Each one had details Nox could only imagine could come from horrid dreams or things out of fantasy. But he lived a horror show himself so not as far fetched as what others might believe.
Each page pulled him deeper and deeper into the drawings, his coffee forgotten.
Nox flipped the page. His heart beat faster, he couldn't breathe. The world stopped, there was nothing but image staring back at him. A man with a flaming sword facing off against three unnatural dogs. Three corpses on the ground, a ghostly shadow of a girl dripping blood. His nightmare stared him in the face. Nox muttered one word, "How?"
His mind tumbled with questions, but his body was frozen in fear, in anguish. How could she see his nightmares?
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