Elina tightened her fingers slightly. Now sitting across from him again feeling his presence so close those emotions stirred once more deep, tangled, and impossible to neatly categorize.
No doubt finding the High Elf priestess was her duty as a descendant of Elfenheim. However, if she were to be honest with herself wanting to walk beside him again to remain close to the man who had shattered her despair and replaced it with something fierce and alive.
Wanting to experience that night once again, it might also be part of why she was so insistent on joining him.
Reinhardt's visit to their village was purely due to his need to raise the seed of the World Tree. If not for it, he wouldn't have visited the village anytime soon.
Elina didn't want this encounter to be her last; as such, she grabbed the opportunity by any means possible.
By the time Reinhardt returned back from Toto village, dusk had already settled around the horizon.
The sky was painted with an orangish hue.
