Leara and Ulfric got sappier as they got older, which does nothing for my digestion. As this is technically *looks at smudge on hand* bird...Third! As this is technically the third one chronologically, we all know they only get sappier and I only get weirded out more. Like, what possessed me to do this?
*I remember I started writing these at sixteen and I was a sucker way back then*
Okay.
CRYSTALIZED ICE
25 - Gazing into One Another's Eyes
Setting: Road to Helgen, c. 4E201
Word Count: 134
He hadn't seen those eyes in over twenty years. Crystal blue like the winter sky. Depthless and knowing like the waters of Lake Rumare. Wide, because somehow this mage, this Leara Ormand, was the same person as Vilya of the Aldmeri Dominion, the Thalmor Justiciar who had tortured him and set him free.
She never fathomed that when she came to Skyrim, she'd find herself looking into the icy blue eyes of Ulfric Stormcloak. Frozen, like the magic that sprsng from her fingertips. They were a cold blue, but not rigidly so as they were in the days when she had had to torture him. Searching eyes that now knew her for the liar she was.
Icy eyes that, like the province she'd chosen to live in, she now found herself subject to.