Equinox

EQ UI NOX a short story by Blazey.

prelude You know what I mean, don't you- when I talk of humid nights beside Luna... air stirring around us, her breathing in our ears. When we looked up through the intertwined brambles to the stars above. When we were tired yet not quite asleep... standing on the edge of a cliff, ready to let go and surrender ourselves to the warm air below us. Content to fall forever as long as we could look up at the stars and loose ourselves in them.

You know what I mean...don't you?

You've always known, for we are two halves of the same whole. We came from the same heart and the same mind.

I have spent years and years without you, our hearts beating together although we were oceans apart. Layers of fall leaves have coated the ground, frozen, and thawed again. I have filled my heart with dazzling light you will never see. I have loved, yes, though you told me I couldn't... I have surrendered my heart and had it ripped heartlessly to shreds.

I got it back, because I always do, and I am stronger. I am stronger than the willow tree over our home, stronger than the coldest ice on the pond. You didn't see me break and you didn't see me repair myself. In ways, dearest brother, my heart has created itself anew.

I am no longer a baby, I am not the 'gentle moonlight' Luna said I was. And you- I see you clearly- you are not the reckless, arrogant rogue I grew up with. There is something about you- a gleam gone from your eye, a sudden stillness. Your heart has remade itself... and oh, brother, what have you become?

Just listen to me... just let me speak before you run away from me again. Hear me out, and let us see if our hearts remember each other. And then you are free to run as far away as you please.

Let me start and the beginning.

Our beginning. i.tbc