riding the aftershock beside you

He held her tight, and Deathbelle felt something she hadn’t in a very long time. The once Empress felt like she belonged here, like there wasn’t anywhere else in the world where she would fit more perfectly. She had once had this before, in a much different time and in what seemed like a different world. ”Missing you,” she told him teasingly as he placed little affectionate pecks upon her cheek. He’d been getting into trouble without her, coming back to her blinded and… bigger? That part she wasn’t upset about. Belle had always preferred to have a pair of strong arms around her shoulders, though she hadn’t loved her smaller partners any less.

”Distracting myself with aid in my niece’s pack. I always knew she would grasp hold of her true nature.” She’d never imagined relinquishing her throne so early. A commoner was what she had become after once being the most powerful woman in all of Boreas. She tried not to dwell on the thought, because now she was free. Free to do exactly as she wished, and what she wished was to have Magnus. ”I don’t wish to think of the outside world right now. I have you again,” the sound of her smile reached her voice as she snuggled back into his neck. Hesitantly she reached up to nibble temptingly at his cropped ear, a suggestion of where her thoughts were going.