would you spend your whole life with me,
She goes straight for the water – it’s like a homing beacon, a guiding star, a guardian angel. And even when she wanders, it will always call her home. It does that, to family. So even though she arrives in the dark of night, the buckskin girl makes a beeline for the waterfall, wading into the clear waters and admiring the way the moonlight bounces off of the ripples she creates. And even though she is not injured, and she’s been away, the cool embrace of the water is soothing enough to draw a deep sigh from buckskin girl.
Nairne is the only one to have returned to the Falls. Her parents are away – together, she supposes, or at least they were the last time she saw them, before Natilyn brought her back to Beqanna. And the boys must be nearly grown themselves now, and making their own ways in the world. They’d been born here, that legacy at least Natilyn had wanted to give them – but they weren’t raised in the Falls like Nairne. And though it has been many years since she lived here, since her mother was Queen, it still fits like a glove.
She’s heard the rumors. War is on the horizon. And so it seemed as good a time as any to return home. And the older rumors – magic has changed in Beqanna, and the Kingdoms are no longer divided by what is and what isn’t. And the Falls crown has changed hands again – though if her history is correct (she knows it is) it isn’t the first time Texas has ruled the waterfall Kingdom. And Texas is her…great great great great grandfather. Which makes him, in Nairne’s opinion, well, old. But also family – which makes the return to the Falls without her family a little less hollow.
would you be there to always hold me down?
Nairne
mikhael x natilyn