Ride Out the Storm With You

*Cicero* · 10-09-2021, 09:07 PM

Her siblings should have been used to her wanderings by now. Though she cared for them, the small fae was very independent. She didn't need to be around her family constantly. If she stayed close, how would she have made the discoveries that she'd made? How would she have learned everything that she knew? It was no secret that her brothers and sister were all about the chase of the party. They all wanted fun and celebration and excitement. Cicero wanted knowledge. She was made of different stuff. Perhaps the closest to her in that sense was Stjarna, but there were still great differences there.

Having followed her senses far, far away, Cicero had only planned to locate strange, new hallucinogens. She hadn't expected, nor ever imagined, that she would be returning with a man in tow. Having met Straton, Cicero was immediately smitten. He was rough and worldly, handsome, huge and much, much older than she was. If anyone knew anything about the black hole of a fae, it was that she had a weakness for older men. As it turned out, Straton wasn't just a pretty, salt and pepper face. He had been just what she didn't know she'd always wanted. The pair had begun traveling together immediately and, as the days and nights passed, they became rather close.

One might think to immediately introduce a lover to their family, but Cicero wasn't of that mindset. She was content with the way things were and knew that the Aracari bunch would do whatever they could to embarrass her the moment that they met Straton. Her sister and a brother or two might even try to flirt with the man. That sent Cicero's internal hackles to rising. No... she would hold off on taking her lover home to the family for as long as she could manage.

A gentle summer thunderstorm was slowly rolling in. The evening had become dark with storm clouds and, magically right before them, the opening of a hollow in one of the giant trees appeared. The small, obsidian and snow fae led the hulking brute inside, shifting out of her pack and turning so that they could look out the doorway to watch the storm. No sooner had they settled down, the clouds opened and the rain began to hammer into the ground where they'd just walked. Cicero gave a soft huff of amusement. "Perfect timing."

"Speech"

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