[ Alkaid timidly moves with his direction. Not out of fear or worry he may hurt her, but out of the worry he will blame himself if her wounds are aggravated. He had already shown his displeasure at Zenos scaring her once, but now a second time? She imagines he is still quite angry beneath the surface, but choses to focus on other matters. Alkaid is not a mind reader, but she believes she knows him well enough to understand how he thinks.
She carefully slides into her lap by straddling him. Their height difference makes several things tricky at times, but she has learned how to position herself for ease of effort. Her head tilts back so she might look at him proper with a small but sad smile on her lips. Long has she thought her sister the true Warrior of Light, while she merely someone who does not live up to the role. Somehow the request from home for magical aid, but not healers, stung her heart in a similar manner. A ridiculous thought, to be certain, and yet one she has had nonetheless.
Her eyes close at his gentle kiss. Her ears droop as always at his special name for her, but her heart gives a strong beat. Aymeric always seems to find thr right words to direct and reassure all around him, including her. She most certainly understands his double meaning and swallows the emotions threatening to rise in her. Of course he understood her worry. Only her sister knows her as well as he does.
Alkaid gently brushes her cheek to his in a brief show of affection. Her hands return to his hair, combing up into it to brush through the strands. ]
Even as just me, and not a Warrior of Light? A Savior of Ishgard? A holder of the Seat of Azem? [ She almost feels as if she has asked him this once before. Perhaps in another life. ] As just Lantaa... and Althea?
[ Her eyes instantly cast downwards as a look of regret and shame crosses her face. Emet-Selcht insisted she and K'thisru continue to uphold their Seat. That they travel the world and shards and aid the people. Yet, what of what she wishes? Is it so wrong to put the life she has wanted above such demands, now that all that Hydaelyn had seen to had been resolved?
And then, she echoes words spoken when she returned from the First: ] All I want is the life we are to have--the one we were supposed to have before everything. Through every life we've been reborn to... is that so wrong?
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She carefully slides into her lap by straddling him. Their height difference makes several things tricky at times, but she has learned how to position herself for ease of effort. Her head tilts back so she might look at him proper with a small but sad smile on her lips. Long has she thought her sister the true Warrior of Light, while she merely someone who does not live up to the role. Somehow the request from home for magical aid, but not healers, stung her heart in a similar manner. A ridiculous thought, to be certain, and yet one she has had nonetheless.
Her eyes close at his gentle kiss. Her ears droop as always at his special name for her, but her heart gives a strong beat. Aymeric always seems to find thr right words to direct and reassure all around him, including her. She most certainly understands his double meaning and swallows the emotions threatening to rise in her. Of course he understood her worry. Only her sister knows her as well as he does.
Alkaid gently brushes her cheek to his in a brief show of affection. Her hands return to his hair, combing up into it to brush through the strands. ]
Even as just me, and not a Warrior of Light? A Savior of Ishgard? A holder of the Seat of Azem? [ She almost feels as if she has asked him this once before. Perhaps in another life. ] As just Lantaa... and Althea?
[ Her eyes instantly cast downwards as a look of regret and shame crosses her face. Emet-Selcht insisted she and K'thisru continue to uphold their Seat. That they travel the world and shards and aid the people. Yet, what of what she wishes? Is it so wrong to put the life she has wanted above such demands, now that all that Hydaelyn had seen to had been resolved?
And then, she echoes words spoken when she returned from the First: ] All I want is the life we are to have--the one we were supposed to have before everything. Through every life we've been reborn to... is that so wrong?