Take me home

Ulric had shown them to a hall that was lined with doors that each opened to a small guest room, each one of them pretty similar with sparse decorations and a simple bed. She had started out in her own bed since they were each given their own room, but not even ten minutes in to trying to sleep she left the room and quietly slipped into the one beside hers where Balthier had chosen to stay. Not having him beside her felt so strange and especially on a day like today she felt all the more desperate to keep him close. It felt like every time she let someone in her life drift too far away they were suddenly gone, disappearing in the blink of an eye to never be seen again. There wasn't a fear that Balthier would willingly do something like that the way their parents had, but she couldn't quite shake the thought that if she looked away for too long something might take him away.

She quietly closed the door behind her and came over to his bed like a moth to a flame, climbing into it beside him and finding the now familiar place in his embrace against his chest. They slept like this every night since their father left and it helped her breathe a little sigh of relief as she rested her head on his chest. Her body still ached from the trip here and she was physically and mentally exhausted after everything they had uncovered, everything they had lived through, but her thoughts were still reeling. It didn't feel real. It felt like she would just wake up from a nightmare and suddenly everything would be back to normal. "Are they really gone?" she asked softly, leaving her head on his chest and not looking up at him as she spoke.

"Azzurra"