Are you the Destroyer? [Solace]

[Solace]

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Solace

. . .

Nothing was simple.
This shouldn't surprise her, but the fact that it does only makes matters worse. It makes her self-doubt more acquit and turns her naivety to something close to shame. 

She isn't sure if what she has done can be called unfaithfulness, but she knows she is running from the thought of telling Kgerus - so it must be wrong. At the same time, she has hidden the extent of her relationship with Kagerus from Castile... possibly ruining two of her most powerful bonds. 

Once they found out. 

If they found out.

They have to find out.

This was the loop her mind had been running on all day as she carried on with her duties. After her morning flight over the southern border, Solace leaves them all to returns to the spot along the river where she had first met Castile. The memory is a distant one, one that probably would have been forgotten had she never seen him again. But the importance of that day is highlighted in hindsight. She hadn't had a kingdom then, she hadn't even had her wings, and his advances met by her awkward refusals had been the first of their kind. Little did she know he was setting hearts a-fluttering all across the country.

He was a magnetic force and she was a fool to believe she would be the only one drawn to him. 

The musky scents of the lesser mammals are thick in the air, yet she does not pause to consider them. The frustration in her chest builds as she reaches the place she had been searching for, but she halts abruptly when a bitter, unfamiliar voice breaks through the fog. 

She sighs as her head swivels in the unseen stranger's direction. So much for the alone time. 

"What did you say?" she calls, in a matter-of-fact tone nearly devoid of the inflection which usually accented questions.