[There it is. The penny drops and OA is smiling before the words find their way to Midge's lips. She's pleased and amused in equal measure, the emotions shared across the bond warm and bright and tinged only faintly with bittersweet nostalgia.
She nods in response to the question, a secretive smile crinkling the corners of her eyes. Here it feels like the sharing of a joke, not like it did in Crestwood, where everyone already knew.]
Yeah. I was. I lost my sight when I was seven.
[A beat.]
I couldn't show you that. It's hard. The way it came back to me was harder.
[This is not the time to be inducted into the mysteries of death. Midge has enough on her plate already. A flicker of... some impossibly complex emotion bleeds across the bond, a sort of cosmic shudder that arrives and passes, leaving the seas of OA's emotions calm in its wake. Before it's gone, she feels -- they feel -- small and mighty all at once. There is a subtle edge of horror and awe. She is a dot, she is a universe. Omega and alpha.]
But it's strange, isn't it? The way the shape of the whole world changes. Things that seem so big and frightening become...
[She shakes her head, casting about for words.]
Friends.
[Not unlike this place. They grow accustomed. It still has teeth, but it has soft fur too. She gives Midge's hand another gentle squeeze.]
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She nods in response to the question, a secretive smile crinkling the corners of her eyes. Here it feels like the sharing of a joke, not like it did in Crestwood, where everyone already knew.]
Yeah. I was. I lost my sight when I was seven.
[A beat.]
I couldn't show you that. It's hard. The way it came back to me was harder.
[This is not the time to be inducted into the mysteries of death. Midge has enough on her plate already. A flicker of... some impossibly complex emotion bleeds across the bond, a sort of cosmic shudder that arrives and passes, leaving the seas of OA's emotions calm in its wake. Before it's gone, she feels -- they feel -- small and mighty all at once. There is a subtle edge of horror and awe. She is a dot, she is a universe. Omega and alpha.]
But it's strange, isn't it? The way the shape of the whole world changes. Things that seem so big and frightening become...
[She shakes her head, casting about for words.]
Friends.
[Not unlike this place. They grow accustomed. It still has teeth, but it has soft fur too. She gives Midge's hand another gentle squeeze.]
Are you hungry?