Maybe In Our Next Life

Cold but mighty

"Here's your duvet, the shower room is over there and the dressing room is right over at the corner" a servant stated to Yvaine as she slowly walked out the door as if asking her self if judged the book too fast by  misreading Yvaine's class status due to her out ward appearance. 
"Thanks" she whispered doubting the servant had even heard her while retreating.
She plumped herself on the big bed that she believed could fit all 5 of  her family at once and still provide them comfort. She quietly laughed at the hell on earth that would unleash  between my mom and dad, maybe even Alice, in that one moment

Ahhhh she let out a sigh she suspected to have been holding since she walked in through the gates of the highlands.
She directed her body towards the warmth of the bed, soaking in every last experience cause she swore she'd be damned if she walked in here willfully the next time mama sent her.

Knock knock

" hey" it was zephyr

"Last time I remembered this was your place not mine .... Why knock ?" Yvaine said rolling her eyes behind her shut lids whilst not moving an inch from the position she had fixated her self in

"Well my parents ... but still a woman resides in it now so I can't do such"
He said as he retreated to the large couch placed beside the windows. It was quiet, too quiet for Yavine 

Why had he not spoken a word for 5 minutes Yvaine thought 

She opened her eyes when she decided that she could no longer bear the silence, and there sat this young man she had promised her self to do away with after today. He looked reoccupied with his thoughts as he stared out the windows towards the moon, the dark lights from the night  highlighted features Yvaine had not noticed before now, his dimples seeped through his cheeks as he sucked his lips into his mouth

Was he picking at his lips with his teeth or was he just holding it in Yvaine thought as she examined strangely intrigued 

" what's the low lands like"  he said not turning his gaze from the view he seemed fascinated with 

Had he caught her staring, Yvaine hoped not 

"well weird question, erhmm ....horror. loneliness " Yvaine said waiting for his reply but it didnt come 

"what's the highlands like" Yvaine asked honestly, she had always wanted to know, at least for a short while she hoped to see the world she so much hated  through the lens of another, it was after all home to them.

"same" he said shortly after

"that's a very vague expression" Yvaine replied puzzlingly as she moved her being to the next adjacent couch  that laid in the opposite direct of zephyr 

"Is it ?....life is vague "

what was with this sudden burst of depression thought Yvaine

" are you okay" Yvaine asked a little worried about what she was getting her self into by asking 

"well weirdly, I don't feel a need to put up a wall to hid my emotions near you so I'm taking my chances" he said but this time he turned towards Yvaine to smile shyly before retiring to his previous stance 

" well am I too low life of a person for you to care about how you come off to me?" Yvaine asked jokingly 

"nooo" zephyr replied quickly turning his head towards Yvaine in hopes that he had not offended her but the fear in his expression caused to her to chuckle