✦ ✧ ❛ What are you doing down here?
❜ she asks in a voice that echoes, thrown back from the corners of the vast chamber and the far edges of the pool, all glistening waves stirred by her graceful strokes.
It’s perhaps a less than intelligent question, but she hadn’t been expecting him. Not here. Not now.
STEPS LEAD HIM ONWARD. reflections of constellations ripple through plentiful waters ; cerulean waves causing soft crashes against a pool surface. a familiar body wading through the crystal waters is cause for near - stupefaction. he stands with words swallowed by an UNSURE TONGUE , dark chocolate eyes struggling to maintain a sober expression. ‘ ——— lieutenant. i was not expecting to find you here. ‘ syllabus fall clumsy from his mouth , a question UNANSWERED.
‘ i found the architecture fascinating , and therefore continued to survey the area’s creation. had i known the pool was occupied .. i would have waited. ‘ a gaze settles on her figure , a warm tone glistening with water drawing his attention from previous fascinations. he had MEMORIZED HER , years of soft touches burn his palms and paint upon his lids ———– but even so , an awestruck gleam twinkles behind a cool expression. a beauty UNMATCHED.