Stars Beneath the Sands (Tier/Santa)

"HI!" Santa's arrival was probably startlingly abrupt. A side product of Ajora's awoken potential was the fact that by proxy, Santa had also garnered an impressive ability with Garganta. Not only did space simply peel away from the woman rather than her stepping out of a proper portal. But the woman's spiritual pressure would be nonexistant up until the instant she had fully arrived, courtesy of Ajora's special descorrer. And so, Tier would very suddenly have a smiling Santa beside her, promptly throwing her arms around the woman in an aggressive hug!

IF there was one thing Tier could always count on, it was that Santa's greetings would always be so energetic in all but the most dire of circumstances. The weight of their last interaction? The struggles she'd suffered through? All of it irrelevant for just one moment as Santa expressed how truly glad she was to be called on after so long.

Truth be told, Santa didn't even really notice the difference. Well, not immediately at least. She turned her attention to the landscape around them. Amidst the darkness of the forest, those dull lumbering giants. And for a moment.... she considered the question that Tier offered to her. Why it was that this was how they so thrived. She considered the question....

"It's because we were lonely.... wasn't it?" She glanced at Tier. "I mean....you don't put on a mask if you don't care how others see you. I thought a lot about it. But hollows always seemed lonely.Empty. There's a hole in all of us. It's not always the same one. But we all try to fill it the same way. With eachother." She noted. As mucha s she had grown, her mind always worked in such a .....simplified way. Such broad sweeping strokes.

"I didn't evolve like normal. I wasn't alone. I had others. We were ... like a group, All of us almost identical. A herd. But it was hard. We would eat other hollows, the herd would grow, but we didn't become stronger. We got scared and desperate. So we at eachother. But we didn't stop becoming a herd." She smiled lightly at that. Bone creeping along the sand before muscle gently wrapped around it. A form growing up behind her, and them embracing her as it's body continued to fill in. A form that looked like Ajora. And it's eyes would shift in Tier's direction, before drifting closed again. It almost seemed inert. But Santa smiled all the same in it's embrace.

"But hollows in general don't just vanish. They don't REALLY become one. The big guys.... theyre just...unorganized. They're lost. They don't know who they are anymore. The memories get all.... mixed up. But once they evolve. It's....like someone new is born." She folded her arms. So much more clear in her thoughts these days. And yet still, that stain of optimism was there. To think of such a cruel cycle in this light.

She glanced at Tier and let her head tilt to the side curiously. Wondering, briefly, what it was that brought such thoughts to the woman's mind.