active astonishment

As much as she'd been born into it, Lora had also made a choice to be opportunistic, ensuring her own impossible chance to thrive.

There were lines she drew, of course. There were things that scared her, made her wish to stop on her heels and turn back.

But this, now, with the Aegis herself drawing her away from the void of death, was both at once.

Yes, of course, Lora's heuristic was to say yes, you beautiful thing, yes, but that didn't put ground under her feet.

She felt whole, enveloped, ever-bound.

As soon as Pneuma drifted, Lora jumped.