FFXIV Prompt - Week 1: Minion.
Ireine’s favorite minion is Morpho, that was gifted to her by Augustiniel ( @judgmentflames ). As I said on Twitter, I have 0 drawing talents, so I wrote a piece to go with it:
It was so fragile, yet pulsing with warmth and light against her palm...
They were not expecting to find anything alive that could be saved in that place: much time ago, in the days the White and the Black raged a war among themselves and against the world, the city thrived with magic and life, but now the only things that grew there were mold, corruption and death.
But when Augustiniel found the little creature among the cobwebs, battling for its life, and took it with such a delicate touch to put over her open palms, Ireine understood, more than ever, that nothing was simple as black and white, that life flowed in grey rivers, that life found a way no matter what.
She blinked and breathed, healing the fragile creature in her hands, watching the blue coming back to life, coming back to shine, the quick wing-beats tickling her skin. She watched the butterfly regain life, fly around them so free and so alone, and her heart broke once more for it, unwelling to leave such a beautiful creature among the rubbles of its ancestor.
Trembling, she opened her hand once more, extending her arm in front of her and waiting. Trembling, she felt Augustiniel put a hand over her shoulder, the calm and sureness of him, so gentle yet so heavy upon her. Trembling, she watched the butterfly landing in her palm.
So blue, so sad, so alone as she once was.
Trembling, she made a promise...