Solace's heart is full to overflowing, happy tears accentuating the sparkle of her crystalline eyes. She takes a sidestep as Kagerus and Svedka banter, her laugh a steadying note below the turmoil.
They settle, and Solace returns to her twin's side, and she looks up into his face just in time to catch the look that he doesn't mean to show. It is quick, but she doesn't miss it, this thought that so briefly darkens his shining, blue eyes. But that happy gasp is leaving his lips is enough to chase away the thoughtful look that crosses her own features, and the moment is lost, but not forgotten. It will come up again when she and her wife settle down for the night, and her mind replays these happy events to her. Then she will remember this shadow of the lion, and ask Kagerus what she thinks it could mean.
The truth, of course, is beyond their imaginings. That he was here the whole time would be a bitter discovery for her. That he remained in the mountains of Hyaline for years after her reign had ended was too much for her to imagine. She had comforted herself with the thought of his explorations in faraway lands, with the tales he would bring back to her and relay in half-told stories, because she could never know the full of it.
He borders on such tales now, but she doesn't have to pretend like she doesn't know what he is talking about. She was too old, too long-married, to be embarrassed by such comments anymore, and she gives a salacious roll of her painted shoulders. With a suggestive turn of his head, he implies the curve of her expanding sides, and she laughs.
"There wasn't much to do," replies, as if running a kingdom or two had ever kept Kagerus and Solace their love-making. Frost for her forelock falls onto her lashes, and she tosses her head with a snort, before turning back to find Kagerus nutmeg gaze. "But we felt it was time to return, and once we knew the twins were on their way, we wanted them to be with family."
we are the ever-living ghost of what once was
@[Kagerus]
