16.Jul.13, 02:32 PM
Mud chittered softly as he moved to climb into Ameris's lap. She smiled softly at the injured firelizard as she moved a hand to scratch him beneath his chin. Like a small canine, the little brown gave three circles before laying himself down. Ameris chuckled quietly at the silly antics of her firelizard and the amusement she heard in R'nya's voice yet again. Three times now in little more than an hour she had heard that simple thing, something she didn't think he was capable of and it amused her to no end.
She watched him as he dug for the words to explain what it was like to be bonded. She'd asked her father before and he'd always said it was like finding something that was missing and you didn't even know it had been. You didn't realize you had another being living inside your mind, you just did. Remembering those times brought out a man Ameris missed with most of her being. The man A'mad used to be before everything had changed.
"I don't understand," she said quietly, "it's not as if that point in time ceased to exist when you impressed Xyreith. So how could you not recall it?" She didn't understand. Impressing would change things in her or anyone's life but there had been a life before that time, one not easily forgotten. She did suppose that if the person's life had been meaningless, impression would do the opposite, bringing meaning to it and they would want to forget and blank that life out. But Ameris couldn't imagine she would want to.
She watched him as he dug for the words to explain what it was like to be bonded. She'd asked her father before and he'd always said it was like finding something that was missing and you didn't even know it had been. You didn't realize you had another being living inside your mind, you just did. Remembering those times brought out a man Ameris missed with most of her being. The man A'mad used to be before everything had changed.
"I don't understand," she said quietly, "it's not as if that point in time ceased to exist when you impressed Xyreith. So how could you not recall it?" She didn't understand. Impressing would change things in her or anyone's life but there had been a life before that time, one not easily forgotten. She did suppose that if the person's life had been meaningless, impression would do the opposite, bringing meaning to it and they would want to forget and blank that life out. But Ameris couldn't imagine she would want to.