i wish you were here

Her actions lacked any intentional intimacy, but an Empress licking the toes of a loner may not have been Belle’s ideal situation to be found in. These thoughts didn’t interrupt her work, but they bothered her as she finished cleaning the wound. Thistle reappeared at her shoulder, gliding in from a hole up above the pair.

”Since its inception. I raised the pack on my own.” She didn't offer any boasting in her words, only presented the answer as fact. She had reached out and grasped hold of Ashen as her own and her family had flocked to her. She’d made a stable home and forged her contract with Archon… She coughed softly to cover up the sudden sob that bubbled up from her throat. The emotions appeared from nowhere at times and she couldn’t help her reaction.

”Do you feel like you need pain reliever?” She asked while arranging a bit of horsetail to smear over Hemlock’s toes.