AoI - 100 Themes V1: 2. Love

His hair as fine as spun silver, flaxen in the setting sun’s light, speech sweet and gilded as his singing voice, these things had earned him the nickname Silva Tongue among the company’s of the Eighth Legion; Sargent Silvenicas Trigor. If things had happened differently, if the grain had never failed, had she been by his side…

Llandi kisses the small clay figure and slips it back into the pouch with the other, he is dead she knows this, and yet this insane hope small but bright hidden where it cannot be quashed; that somewhere out there he lives still.