mahalakshmi: (• and it's my whole heart)
•maharani ([personal profile] mahalakshmi) wrote 2018-05-29 11:21 am (UTC)

For a moment, he looks so much easier, in sleep. Looks far away, like sleeping people always did. A shape male in the moonlight coming in through windows and her mouth opens on a hum. It had been so long since she has rested anywhere much at all. Would it be awful, to want to find a nice bed to lay her head for once?

But when he moved, she started back. Kept herself half in the shadows of the room, as she watched him - like it was impossible to watch anything else right now. They had said he was short, but they said nothing of how frail he seemed, all bones that she watched as he moved. Not ill, just... lean. Against her worn, hard hands, he might just break. But: it didn't mean much of anything to her, as long as he was skilled, she reminded herself. He moved well enough.

Though when he moves, bows, she relents in her guard. Moving into the half stretch of moonlight to let herself be seen. Eyes bright, blinking - but they don't look away from him. She stayed fixed on him, whether he was predator or prey yet, she could not decide.

"You know me?"

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