Axiomatic 10. But although she’s not sure yet what to make of the man in front of her, she’s willing to see if it works out in her favor. I had no way back home. All the while, the goblet weighs heavily in her hand, almost like –. She expected to be hanged or quartered for it – made an example, for certain. But sometimes that means people grow in different directions. His eyes drop to the floor, his shoulders hunched. Of course he has. A song for the lost and the dead. Everytime you are not around. The streets are dark and deserted. Lyrics to 'Driftaway' by Mötley Crüe. Nobody escapes Wobani, but they do and that doesn’t sit right with anyone. “According to legend, it brings back the dead you’ve lost,” he continues. I'm slowly drifting, drifting away. I think I let go of it in the water.”. Jyn’s legs give out, and she sits under her window, pressing herself tightly against the wall to just… listen. A sad smile plays on his lips, his eyes glassy. He has no grudge against Cassian, only against her, and she can’t see why he would accept such a deal unless he realized that Cassian’s death would be a greater punishment than her own. She wants the goblet to sell it. “I don’t know how I survived, I really don’t. He knows a little about him; she’s admitted to having a dead lover in her weaker drunken moments, but she’s never talked about him much. I’m not haunted.”, “I’m just asking. She stops and rounds on Cassian, eyes wide and demanding. That feather seemed like it drifted along as if by magic. Most pirates are, to be honest. She can’t bring herself to sell it so she settles for a compromise. He has a bounty on his head higher than mine.”, “I don’t need the money, you silly little girl,” he tells her, dismissive. Please consider turning it on! You might be drifting apart from your friend if you feel like nothing positive is coming out of the friendship, especially if they constantly disappoint you, complain, or belittle you. Drifting.Angst.You're slowly drifting away from me, Dan. But there he is. I figured you had gone into hiding but I didn’t know how to find you. Jyn continues struggling as she’s dragged away, followed by Krennic and his guards. He looks guilty, ashamed, and Jyn wants to get up, gather him in her arms and never let go, but she has to hear the rest of his story. And so does she. Frozen on the spot, her breathing harsh and gasping, all she can do is watch as he plays his banjo. These contradictions seem to be the story of my life. You're like a wave washing over me. But how could she? CREDITS No matter how dangerous it gets. How many times has she heard that story? When they’re an appropriate distance away, Jyn can’t hold herself back anymore. It’s there, somewhere in the sea, that he lies at the bottom, waiting for her. She stands on trembling legs, her body carrying her towards the doors – and then she’s running, taking off in the direction that she saw him heading. Renews automatically. She knows why he’s here. “No!” Jyn shouts, struggling against her captors harder. One of them bled out. The only thing that matters is that every part of her is touching every part of him. She should have told Bodhi where she went, she should have brought him with her – she should just go back and sell the damn thing, but when she looks around, all she can see is water and water and more water. The stars and the planets. She stole his goods, blew up one of his (smaller) ships, and stabbed three of his crew members. Each day that passes is another day closer to the day when you'll leave me for good. His gaze finally drops, the loss of its intensity making her chest tighten. “What did you give him?” she asks because if she’s sure of one thing, it’s that Whitlock didn’t just let her go for free. What naïve and wealthy widow wouldn’t want a relic that brings back their beloved spouse?”, Captain Andor’s lips quirk up, barely noticeable. Now your stomach is in knots each time you meet. Since my grandmas died I have felt like I’m in a tiny wooden boat, bleached by the sun, and I … Jyn sits in a seedy tavern in Havana, eyeing Captain Andor with suspicion and a glare that screams, ‘try me and see what I can do.’ She has a hand on her knife in her pocket, the other lazily resting on the pistol in her holster. His eyes, glowing in the soft light of the moon, won’t quite meet hers. Maybe it’s time, she thinks, and her fingers finally loosen around the goblet. Jyn doesn’t react outwardly but her heart beats faster. The money she’d get from the goblet, it’d just feel tainted, wrong. Either way, having a friendship end is not ideal, but sometimes, it just needs to happen for you to grow and experience new ventures in your life. It’s just money.” She pauses, shrugging her shoulders. Her legs feel heavy, and it’s harder every time to push back to the surface when she goes under. “I gave him my ship,” Cassian admits quietly. She sees him in the distance before she goes under, blurry like a mirage. I don’t get organized and sit down and get dressed. A part of her still expects them to be ambushed at the last minute, but Whitlock and his crew watch in silence as they walk off the ramp and disappear into the night. The glance Krennic gives him is dismissive, like Cassian isn’t even worth the time to look at. A song of lost love. Faultlines 3. Drifting slowly. And the more time that passes, the more she feels like this was a bad idea. I wonder if you’ll keep the same attitude once I have you locked away in Wobani for life.”. Thanks for reading! They fight valiantly when his crew boards their slowly sinking ship, but it’s a lost cause – Jyn knows it’s a lost cause, Cassian knows it’s a lost cause, and Krennic, especially, knows it’s a lost cause. Drifter. Brittleness 7. “You find it and it gives them back to you.” A wry smile twists on his lips. Krennic has a personal grudge. says Nelson. “I think he saved me.” Tears fill her eyes, too emotional to hide them. “And then?” she croaks, her voice trembling. “I wasn’t sure if I’d ever see you again,” he admits, small and heart-wrenching. She smiles, taking a deep breath. We need a ship. Jyn sits up fully, unable to look away as she methodically moves her legs off the bed. The news spread quickly, causing unrest across every island from there to Havana. Buying an anchor will help you completely stop your drift. Usually, I write in my pajamas and slowly assemble myself. We go weeks – sometimes even months – without talking and I used to miss you so much when when that happened, but to be honest, it never seemed like you missed me. Maybe she’s irrationally attached but who can blame her? What use is it? A gasp is stuck in her throat, her mouth dry at the sight of him. She believed the legends, she’d given into thinking that he was here to drag her down. Her lungs burn when she breaks surface, gasping for breath as she pulls herself up to the cave floor. But if you feel like you're not invested in your friend as you once were or you constantly hold things back when you're around them, then it might be time to either re-evaluate the friendship or do an Irish goodbye. Down into the deep where Cassian awaits her. Jyn doesn’t say anything until they reach the shore safely, burning with a thousand questions. No word of you for five years. Floating far away from us. She doesn’t hear his answer, if there is one, and she falls under with the comfort that at least her last moments were spent in the embrace of Cassian. “It’s haunted,” Bodhi’s voice echoes in her mind. Finish what he started. Jyn with her goblet and her money and the lack of purpose in her life now. And it hurts to see it go down. When their time comes and he gets up and heads to the door, she reaches after him. Then Whitlock gives her a foul grimace that says he would still very much kill her if he could, and gestures, with some reluctance, towards the ramp leading to the harbor. “I saw… someone,” Jyn admits slowly, pausing before she adds, “Him.”. Cassian strokes her cheek, a gentle smile on his lips. He’d never harm her, and he didn’t – not even in death. If you need an anchor for your kayak, we recommend this one here. I close my eyes and slowly driftaway. You feel tense because you canât be yourself and have to watch your words.". Like he’s trying desperately to underplay it. Two years of working together, two years of building a relationship that couldn’t be betrayed, couldn’t be replaced. But he’s different this time. But still I reach, to find a way. Move on and pillage other ships like normal pirates do. I'll stay underneath. Only the worst of the worst, the most dangerous criminals end up there. Bodhi, bless his heart, is just a little superstitious. Her father had been a man of science once, but the loss of his wife weighed heavily on him, and sinister voices whispering in his ear convinced him that finding the goblet was a way to make their family whole again. She breaks away, the sound on her lips a strange mix between a laugh and a sob. Let's be real: just liking your friend's Instagram post doesn't count. “The goblet is haunted,” he comments lazily, though he doesn’t sound like he believes it. She doesn’t believe in those childish stories anymore. She feels almost as if they’re calling out to her from the deep, asking her to join them. No, she doesn’t want the goblet to bring back dead people from the grave. She’s going to return it to the cave where it belongs, let some other poor clown find it if they can. I held the feather in my palm until it drifted off into the air. Jyn gasps in shock and reels back from the window like she’s been burned. “Did you think we’d end up here when we first met?” she wonders, her tone quiet, matching the tranquility between them. Where’s the catch? It just depends on the nature of your friendship and what is normal for that friendship. “Don’t go. “I think he’s come for me.” She pauses, a bitter laugh escaping her mouth. "The communication becomes less frequent and/or you're not talking as much (phone calls used to be a good 20 minutes and now they're five). Krennic’s ship pulls farther away and Stardust sinks lower and lower into the ocean, but her gaze never leaves Cassian as long as she still sees him. i'm slowly drifting to you wintersend. Sinking slowly. They took me back, brought me to Havana. The waves lap at her bare feet, the tide rising higher and more insistent. If you don't remember the last time you actually had a conversation with them, then you might want to re-evaluate the friendship. There’s something about him that’s genuine. Sitting there, his fingers flying over the instrument, playing some slow, sorrowful melody that tugs at her heartstrings. So it's natural for someone to drift away from a friend if they hold things back and just have a surface-level relationship. It was never meant to be hers, never meant to be anyone’s, perhaps, but everyone has to learn from their own mistakes. Battlefeel 9. He shrugs, a small defeated gesture. drift off 1. I drift in and out of writing.” “If one day you realize that we’re drifting apart, it’s because you’ve … But she thought it would give her satisfaction, at least. The big question in these moments is to be aware of our choice: do we want to stay connected to this person right now and invest the time it will take or do we feel peace with letting distance show up right now?" staircase (oh) And I know there's nothing more for us to be (oh) And I feel the tide, its drifting, drifting (oh) And I … I was stranded there... for five years.”. Painting a picture of what. Her room is on the second floor so she has a perfect view of him sitting outside, illuminated by the moonlight, while she remains shrouded in the darkness of her room. Krennic blinks once, twice, before he slowly wipes at his eyes with a headkerchief he produces from his breast pocket. Maybe you used to get together at least once or twice a month and now the get togethers are every couple of months. Let the waves claim her body, let her become a part of them forever. “Just thought I saw someone who owes me some money,” she lies, ignoring the skeptical look he gives her. And maybe she is fucking haunted. “A merchant ship came by about three months ago. It’s not enough, but as she stands on the beach at sunrise and places a bouquet of wildflowers on the water, she feels it counts for something. Jyn wails until she no longer has a voice. I had to make it back to you. How many times has she been left at strange ports with strange people while he went on his wild adventures to find the goblet that would bring back her dead mother? His obsession with the goblet had killed him and Jyn had hated it then, hated it more than ever, but still, she’d become similarly obsessed. “Get out of my sight, Erso. It’d be so easy to join him, she realizes as the water engulfs her again. Like she’s loved. It’s not a promise but it’s enough. I tried to look for you. “I find that part,” she begins, her tone conversational, “is very easy to forget.”. How could I live in a world where you don’t?”, He takes a step through the door, where nothing but the empty awaits him and gives her the strangest of smiles. Perhaps she had too much to drink, Bodhi stuffing her head with his nonsense, but she could have sworn…. She watches the men holding Cassian tie him to the mainmast, making sure he can’t escape, before joining the rest of them. Her lungs burn and her head feels dizzy, her vision blurry and darkening. In hindsight, she should have killed him then. as well as Nobody leaves, not unless they’re dead. left kudos on this work! There’s so much to talk about. And even though you feel this way, you don't have a desire to fix it. But not unless there’s no other choice.” His eyes bore into hers, dark and deep and almost frightening in its intensity. And Krennic, perhaps to drive the nail home, fires once again. His eyes find hers again, looking for a sign, an answer. Jyn’s hand tightens around the bed frame. He never takes off his eyes the instrument and he doesn’t seem to notice her. you and a friend slowly start to drift away. So ready to throw yourself at death’s door. Jyn beams back at him. Jyn knows in her heart that she’s found it. She couldn’t, not yet, but when the time was right, she would walk into the sea and disappear for good. Jyn is uncomfortable with both, even though she knows he means well. I grabbed a plank floating in the water, just trying to hold on. “Cassian,” she begins, her words slow as if she was talking to a child, “captains need a ship. She does this on every occasion, tries to convince him to stay, tries to forcibly, physically make him stay – but her words are different this time, her desperation becoming an inferno, and his response is a mystery. “He wasn’t here to take me with him, he was here to save me.”. :), (See the end of the work for more notes.). It’s a peaceful thought. “You didn’t seem afraid.”, “Hmpf. But she’s not that transparent yet. Well, she’s been the proud owner for a few days now and she’s seen no signs of ghosts and no signs of hellfire. For a second, her mind is pleasantly blank, merely enjoying the soft melody filtering through the window of her room. You can still be drifting in that state, when you aren’t challenging yourself enough. Ill be here when you find me. [Verse 1] You're drifting far away from love. She turns her head towards Bodhi, a realization sitting on her tongue. Whoever is in possession of the goblet will be dragged to hell by their dead loved ones. “Don’t start, Bodhi. Eventually, I just…”. I do the laundry. Jyn knows she’s in trouble. I don't want that day to come, Dan. They’ve bought this ship together, Cassian and she, after he gave away his old one to Whitlock. “Good,” he breathes. Jyn shakes her head, trying to let the fresh air clear her hazy mind of these childish thoughts. “Cassian,” she calls out to him, struggling to sit up and catch his arm. If it wasn’t for the small chance that she was about to walk out of here scot-free, she would have kicked his legs out for that. by making excuses to hang out with them), then that might be a sign that you're drifting away from your friend. His tear-stained cheeks now match hers. "Research shows that healthy relationships need a positivity/negative ratio of 5:1, meaning that we need five deposits in our love banks for every withdrawal. To move along in the air or on a surface (typically water) while being propelled only by wind or the current of the water, and without a definition direction. Jyn knows he remembers their conversation in bed just as much as she does. If anything, he seems unbothered. He can’t just be letting her go now. I was trying so hard not to give up… for you. I wasn't gonna write something for Halloween, but somebody at tumblr gave me a prompt about pirates, and this was born. You know a friendship is over when you have no desire to fix it. She can’t take her eyes off him. “It’s a golden goblet with ruby stones. She sits up slowly, and Bodhi is suddenly by her side, pulling the blanket higher up her body like a worried mother hen. She clings to him desperately, clutching at the collar of his shirt, fingers slipping into his hair, trying to pull him closer as much as she can. Maybe you're the one who usually reaches out to schedule a coffee date, but you've stopped doing that. Her hand hovers above the lantern on the nightstand but a strange irrational part of her doesn’t want to draw attention to herself. But she isn’t about to share that with Captain Andor. He’s not dead and not alive – he’s a revenant and he’s hers, just for tonight, until dawn breaks and morning takes him away. And Jyn sobs. Luckily, he doesn’t try to say anything stupidly comforting like “I’m sorry” or “it’s all going to be okay” because he knows her better than that, and he knows she might punch him in the mouth for it. This can happen when we move or change jobs â even if we swear we want to stay in touch, or it can happen when we feel squeezed in a too-busy schedule. He’s worth a lot more to you alive. She met him after Cassian was already… gone. Summary: A stranger argues with him over cat ratings on his own damn blog, and Yoongi wasn't expecting it to be the start of a friendship, but here they are. The trust part, she’s not good with. However, if you feel like you're growing apart from a current friend, here are nine signs you might be right. And don’t fuck with me or my crew again, or even your captain won’t be able to save you next time.”. M83 Lyrics. Nothing exists but her and the water – and memories long-gone of a life she never truly got to live. Just take a moment and watch the sunrise, a voice whispers in her ear, in her memories. She dives underwater looking for the entrance several times, resurfacing periodically to catch her breath. Listens to the melody, haunting and beautiful, like he is himself. But … You return to your religion is not far from now, be careful, you must be kind and polite, courteous and soft. Choose one of the browsed Slowly Drifting lyrics, get the lyrics and watch the video. She’s buried them all at sea, and times like these are when she feels most connected to her dead, each of them waiting below the surface. The goblet always was our adventure. The island is unmarked on any maps, and the entrance to the cave is underwater, hidden by seaweed and algae. “I don’t want to leave you behind.”. Jyn raises an eyebrow. The more you back away, the more the distance of the drift." Bodhi is panting behind her, calling her name, her fake name, and Jyn finally turns to look at him, seeing his wide eyes filled with worry. There are 60 lyrics related to Slowly Drifting. Slowly Drifting. It has been too long alone. Are calling me. Jyn takes in a shuddering breath, her whole body trembling. 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