You're The Only Light

*Azzurra* · 05-17-2021, 04:43 PM

Azzurra smiled with relief when her brother agreed to join her. Even if it was just for a little while, she still appreciated his company and his warmth. She watched as Balthier carefully stepped around her, always so careful and gentle with her. It made her wonder if she was actually as fragile as he made her seem, made her worried about ever leaving the den to face the outside world. It was a conflict she warred with in herself between wanting to be able to go and do all of the things that she had heard about her siblings doing and being afraid of what might happen when she did. Either way, she enjoyed the extra attention he gave when he was settling himself around her. It made her feel precious and special knowing that he cared enough to be careful for her.

Once he was laying around her at her back, she curled in on herself as well, tucking her much smaller frame into his and smiling again as she nestled herself into him with his foreleg draped across her shoulders. "Yes, that's perfect," she whispered to him in return, nuzzling the upper part of the foreleg that was under her, wrapping her dainty paws around his forelegs to hold him close. Nothing made her more content than being wrapped up in an embrace like this, but snuggling with Balthier was secretly - or maybe not so secretly - her favorite.

She let her eyes close as they laid together, relaxing happily into him, until she heard him whisper about how Mom was supposed to be back with Dad tomorrow. Her mismatched ears flicked uncertainly at the news even though she wanted to be happy. She hadn't seen her mother in so, so long and somewhere in the haze of her memories the very few memories she had of Aranea were beginning to fade. The only reason she really remembered what their mother looked like was because she resembled her so closely. Balthier took after their father and she took after their mother. In the few happy days they had all had together she remembered liking the comparison, thinking that she liked being paired off with her brother the way their parents were, but that was a long time ago now. At least they had gotten to see her during their trip to Auster. She hadn't even gotten that.

She blinked open her eyes and looked across the small portion of the den for a moment before she turned and rotated within her brother's embrace so that she could face him, her nose right in front of his. She searched his expression, blue eyes finding blue again. "Do you think she'll actually come?" she asked softly and doubtfully.

"Azzurra"

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