Her hands are warm and dry, her nails clean and cut short. She keeps her smile, looking into his eyes. She doesn't have to do that, Micolash's eyes were bound when they shared runes, but it give her something to focus on as she tries to get into what is hopefully the proper mindset. Should she clear her mind? Or concentrate on her rune? Or maybe try to picture his, or --
It's like being at a party and hearing one's name. Or being lost in the Nexus during a translator malfunction and hearing the words of your own language spoken clear as day. It is a flood of knowledge that flows between them, so much meaning packed into each rune that all other thoughts fall away.
The moon rune speaks of the moon, of course, and her providence. She is compassion, and maternal care. She is the power that comes from a light that reflects rather than burns. She is solace and comfort, her pull strong enough to command the tides but gentle enough to soothe the loneliest of souls.
Adia listens to her own rune -- if one can call her brain scrambling to strengthen newly formed neural networks "listening" -- before turning her attention to Jim's rune, and what it means.
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It's like being at a party and hearing one's name. Or being lost in the Nexus during a translator malfunction and hearing the words of your own language spoken clear as day. It is a flood of knowledge that flows between them, so much meaning packed into each rune that all other thoughts fall away.
The moon rune speaks of the moon, of course, and her providence. She is compassion, and maternal care. She is the power that comes from a light that reflects rather than burns. She is solace and comfort, her pull strong enough to command the tides but gentle enough to soothe the loneliest of souls.
Adia listens to her own rune -- if one can call her brain scrambling to strengthen newly formed neural networks "listening" -- before turning her attention to Jim's rune, and what it means.