with one headlight

The Empress relaxed against him, content to allow her mind a break from Iolaire. The woman meant a lot to her, she’d done so much to heal her heart. It was easy to feel sorrowful at what the pair of them were giving up with the end of their affair. She’d enjoyed every moment she had been allowed with the Armada healer. Belle wondered if her once lover had told Sirius that they reached their end. Not that she knew he’d given his sister a little bit of a hard time about it.

”Ha, you know I would never be able to pry her from you.” Her words were teasing but the sad bit of truth they held hurt. Io was not hers either. ”The Empire will grow in more ways than one.” She tried to assure him as she nuzzled his ear. ”New life will burst forth, we just have to wait for the winter to be through.” There would be new children in Ahen again soon, how they got there would be the better question. Would things work out between herself and Hannibal? Would her guardian finally continue on his impressive line?