Silver Moonlight

He reminded her she was welcome with a soft hum and they settled into silence for a long moment under the stars. She couldn’t imagine insomnia, and she wished Roman didn’t have to deal with the affliction, but she was glad for it tonight. She had freaked out, and maybe damaged whatever relationship was building between them, but she wouldn’t wish he hadn’t come. If he hadn’t been kept awake she wouldn’t be out here right now. Basking under the endless night sky together.

He teased her lightly, he was indeed awake right now in the middle of the night. She wondered if he had gotten any sleep at all. He was always awake earlier than she was too, she didn’t know how he dealt with so little sleep. Maybe that was why he never had a problem napping with her. He didn’t move, his cheek on her forehead as she leaned into his shoulder, needing his warmth a bit more as she cooled off with the night.

She offered her spur of the moment idea, not so sure of herself as he offered a non verbal answer. Before she could tell him to forget about it, he told her how he had camped on his own after he left his family. He teased her about keeping him locked in the castle against his will and she bumped his shoulder and chuckled along with him. Roman offered to take her in the spring as long as Ulric didn’t kill him for suggesting the idea.

Lil was technically an adult at a year and some change old, but it felt like a season’s worth of time would bring her so much closer to real adulthood and so much further from her illness. "We could sneak out on a camping trip.” She offered in rebellious retort. He had told her she needed to channel more of that quality. "What kind of dangerous adventure are you going to take me on?” She prompted him softly as the quiet fell back over them with the blanket of stars.

"Speech"