<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/xNEhQ6X.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/f/f3/DurmstrangCrest.png/revision/latest?cb=20160112161151)</div><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><strong>NAME:</strong> Raynor Nordskov (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=299655.msg14677798#msg14677798)<br/><strong>YEAR:</strong> Seventh<br/><strong>BLOOD STATUS:</strong> Half-blood<br/><strong>WAND:</strong> 12 ¼ | Hornbeam | Horned Serpent Horn<br/><strong>WEARING:</strong> As Pictured<br/><strong>DATE | TIME:</strong> 26 October, 2019 | Evening<br/><strong>LOCATION:</strong> Darley Penthouse<br/><strong>CONTENT:</strong> ____ The Girl<br/><strong>TAGGING:</strong> Bambi – Open</td></tr></tbody></table><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>Life after his departure from home was difficult. It was such a big lie, to realize what it was that he was, and what it was that he was capable of.  The influx of truth was too much, and the keen sting of betrayal stabbed too deeply. With loathing, Raynor ran away. He drove himself for a long time by the fires of his passionate spite for his father. He would have been difficult to recognize then as the happy and high-spirited man that everyone knew him to be. The truth was he retained part of that darkness, that edge. Tonight, with Rhys, the razor's edge of his darker nature came close to having its sharpness revealed.<br/><br/>He was unhappy to see that it had made Bambi uncomfortable, and there were several emotions that swelled within whenever he looked at her face. There had to be confusion for them both, of that he was certain. As kids, she was barred from showing him magic, and got into trouble for a revelation which was promptly buried until he discovered his own dormant power. Raynor had no ill feelings toward Bam, for she was the only one who had ever been honest until his dying mother wrenched the truth from his father's lips with her final pleas. So much time had passed. So much had happened. His mother was taken by a cruel disease, and Bam suffered the same loss by a crueler hand.<br/><br/>Ray listened, following along to the words, but finding them to be more like sounds. He did not care for Rhys, or what happened. It was over. Whenever things were meant to be set right, they would be. He had his own apologies to make, from what he remembered from the argument. But, that was then, and this was now. The present was where he was, and the present was him and her, finding each other once again after everything that had happened in their lives.<br/><br/>Everything was against them, Raynor thought. His anger had kept him from searching her out, forcing him along a lonesome trail of self-discovery out on his own. There would have been little, to no way of her ever finding him. But, despite the mechanisms of man, and the world working against them, fate placed them here on the balcony. Together again, like the old days. But, Raynor thought, it was not like the old days. He never looked at Bam like he did now, and he never felt this rushing wave of decisive certainty. There was an electricity that rumbled throughout his entire being when he gave her his touch.<br/><br/>As she laid out her case, Raynor felt a pang of emotion. He empathized with the feeling, somewhat lost amidst the maze that life had confronted them with. Things were much simpler when they were little, as two small kids running around the expansive fields of his father's farm, laughing as they went. Where was the laughter now, so easy and plentiful. Did he talk about her mother? Give her comfort, but in what way?<br/><br/>To her wondering, and her questioning, Raynor discovered his answer. Where her heart was racing, so was his. Tense, but in a good way. The excitement of his sudden thought bubbled up until he could not bear it any longer. He reached out to Bam as if an invisible force was compelling him to act. Underneath her chin, he placed his touch. With a simple push, he suggested she look up and hold her eyes to his.<br/><br/><em>Shut up and kiss me.</em>That look said.<br/><br/>He closed his eyes, pressed his lips to hers, and embraced the overwhelming fullness of the moment.<br/><br/>His kiss whispered.<em>I've missed you too.</em>