These lands you rule

No words he spoke were not truth, and every single one of them stung. An Empress should not be told what she could and could not do, but he was correct. Many of her family would look down on and potentially spurn her should she take up Sirius as her husband, though she craved to do so. She knew this moment would be the closest she was ever allowed to be with him. For both of their sakes. Tears continued to fall from her eyes as he spoke, using such an informal name she nearly broke their touch.

Her heart broke again as he confessed his love, and she clenched her teeth harder as pain raced over her body like fire. ”I love you, Seer.” She choked with sorrow as he begged her not to cry for him. ”I cry for us” Deathbelle chanced only a bit closer contact, trailing her nose along his muzzle as she prayed for the moment to last just a bit longer. ”For a life we should be able to have.” Was she selfish to want so much as to choose the one who truly held her heart in his paws? The one who was raised from the dead to return to her side with more loyalty than any other. She cursed her heart for wanting the only wolf she could never have.