I need you like a heart needs a beat
but it's nothing new--
Their home was always so quiet that it had caught her off guard to have it suddenly engulfed in flames. The only blessing – if you could even call it such – was that by now all of their children were full grown, to the point that they were easy to keep safe. She hadn't understood why Taiga had fallen under attack the way that it had, but all she had cared for in the moment was ensuring that those of their family that still lived here were safe from the flames. And Ether – her perfect, handsome Ether – had not hesitated to protect them.
It was why, with him alongside her, that so few nightmares came for her at night anymore. The fires had been perhaps one of the first times that she had withstood something so terrifying with him at her side, and something about seeing that he would never let harm come to her had made all the difference in slaying the fears that tried to take her in the night, too.
It was such a strange feeling, for her to know any kind of calm, but she was not surprised at all that it was he that finally brought it to her.
She had hardly stirred all night, until she feels him shifting next to her. Though her sleep was dreamless it had been peaceful, and her dark eyes blink open slowly at the feel of his lips along her jaw. It brings a smile to her face, eyes drifting closed against as she laughs quietly into his chest, where she rests her face. “Good morning, love,” she whispers in a voice still full of sleep, finally lifting her head and finding his bright yellow eyes with hers, pressing a kiss to the corner of his mouth. Then she settles back against him, lowering her head once more to his chest and murmuring, “I think we should stay here, just like this, all day.”
but it's nothing new--
Their home was always so quiet that it had caught her off guard to have it suddenly engulfed in flames. The only blessing – if you could even call it such – was that by now all of their children were full grown, to the point that they were easy to keep safe. She hadn't understood why Taiga had fallen under attack the way that it had, but all she had cared for in the moment was ensuring that those of their family that still lived here were safe from the flames. And Ether – her perfect, handsome Ether – had not hesitated to protect them.
It was why, with him alongside her, that so few nightmares came for her at night anymore. The fires had been perhaps one of the first times that she had withstood something so terrifying with him at her side, and something about seeing that he would never let harm come to her had made all the difference in slaying the fears that tried to take her in the night, too.
It was such a strange feeling, for her to know any kind of calm, but she was not surprised at all that it was he that finally brought it to her.
She had hardly stirred all night, until she feels him shifting next to her. Though her sleep was dreamless it had been peaceful, and her dark eyes blink open slowly at the feel of his lips along her jaw. It brings a smile to her face, eyes drifting closed against as she laughs quietly into his chest, where she rests her face. “Good morning, love,” she whispers in a voice still full of sleep, finally lifting her head and finding his bright yellow eyes with hers, pressing a kiss to the corner of his mouth. Then she settles back against him, lowering her head once more to his chest and murmuring, “I think we should stay here, just like this, all day.”
-- briseis.
@[Ether]