My guiding star, light of my life, I hold you now and for all eternity. As long as fires of earth and heavens shall burn, nothing shall ever part us again."
The vow, soft spoken between breaths that carry the scent of ashes and smoke, is dear to her. Seol tries to smile, allow the contentment that she felt spill though, but the contour of her face seems to have turned into stone. The silver veins of light bind each muscle tightly together until each attempt at the barest fraction of movement is threatened with the cost of stinging pain.
Seo picks up her hand and brushes his mouth along her knuckles, almost reverently. The heat of his mouth seemed to ease some of that inexplicable pain. Some part of it she did not yet understand.
