08-30-2021, 02:38 PM
mazikeen
If Reave knows why Aela might have encouraged Mazikeen to visit Nerine, he isn’t free with the knowledge. Maybe neither of them know what Aela had been up to, if anything at all (though from Mazikeen’s short acquaintance with the other mare, she suspects Aela is more often up to something than nothing). Still, she isn’t yet sorry she’s come.
A short laugh escapes her at Reave’s devilish smile and the words that accompany it and she gives him a dark grin of her own, almost finding it easy. “Well. Two is not quite several but fair enough.” Whether there will be several in the future though, she doesn’t know. The Curse had once wanted more, but then he had changed his mind - wanting her in fighting condition even though the only fight they made was plucking one boy from his home. She doesn’t hope for more or for none, she doesn’t hope for anything anymore. If anything, there is simply no strong desire in her to be pregnant again - there is no fondness for the uncomfortable winter that had made for.
She doesn’t ask Reave immediately how he knows of her children though he’s certainly commanded every last bit of her attention with the mention of them. When was the last time anyone had spoken to her of them, apart from Gale? Had Aela known as well? Mazikeen had not thought anyone outside of Hyaline, with the exception of a few Tephran mares, knew she was a mother - and certainly not that there had been a twin to the son she now raises.
There are many questions to ask and instead of voicing them all at once, she tilts her head a little to the side as she regards Reave and blatantly fishes for information another way. “I suppose my ruse of having them raised in Tephra by someone else hasn’t worked if you know the truth.”
A short laugh escapes her at Reave’s devilish smile and the words that accompany it and she gives him a dark grin of her own, almost finding it easy. “Well. Two is not quite several but fair enough.” Whether there will be several in the future though, she doesn’t know. The Curse had once wanted more, but then he had changed his mind - wanting her in fighting condition even though the only fight they made was plucking one boy from his home. She doesn’t hope for more or for none, she doesn’t hope for anything anymore. If anything, there is simply no strong desire in her to be pregnant again - there is no fondness for the uncomfortable winter that had made for.
She doesn’t ask Reave immediately how he knows of her children though he’s certainly commanded every last bit of her attention with the mention of them. When was the last time anyone had spoken to her of them, apart from Gale? Had Aela known as well? Mazikeen had not thought anyone outside of Hyaline, with the exception of a few Tephran mares, knew she was a mother - and certainly not that there had been a twin to the son she now raises.
There are many questions to ask and instead of voicing them all at once, she tilts her head a little to the side as she regards Reave and blatantly fishes for information another way. “I suppose my ruse of having them raised in Tephra by someone else hasn’t worked if you know the truth.”
@Reave just casually flooding you with Maze posts today