Tag: Sunflowers x 2

The house wore the soft, dark colours and glimmering starlight lamps of nightfall by the time they’d returned, creating a hushed familiarity that suited the young Knight’s frayed spirit just fine. Face to face with Sana’s broken silence, flanked by Lore’s calm acceptance and Julrien’s anything-but, a quiet evening had taken a different turn. They’d eventually fled like fugitives from the raw remorse of it all, into the comparative ease of their own space where they had little need of words to take care of one another. For Julrien himself, who had fallen apart.

He’d leaned on Lore far more than he might have wished through it all, though of course he’d been met with every ounce of the seer’s unwavering strength in...

“He’s forgotten where he came from; he’s forgotten this. But he does not need to remember to belong.” 

Julrien lay awake again in the midnight darkness of their room, surrounded by silence save for Lore’s breathing. It comforted him, as always, to know that his lover seemed, at least for this moment, peaceful enough- no small miracle given everything that had happened, and with a lifetime of difficulty in dreams, besides. It had long since been a favourite habit of the young Knight’s to simply watch and listen whenever his other half was deep in sleep. It could be pitch dark and he would still know the sound of it anywhere. 

Yet that idyllic quiet alongside those soft sleeping-sounds had changed for him. Night after...