Puzzle Piece

Avacyn watched as the emotions crossed her brother's face after she admitted her love for him, seeing the shift from shock to a deep love and joy that reflected from her own gaze. It wasn't like they had never said that they loved one another, but it had never been like this. What had been an innocent expression of affection between siblings had become something else and while she still didn't fully understand what she was admitting or how she felt, it still felt real and true. There was no second guessing and no regrets. A genuine, loving smile pulled across her lips as he replied in kind, her heart skipping a beat and her own luminescent marking glowing and shimmering along with his. When she kissed his nose and she saw the bright grin that crossed his face and felt the delighted quiver of his tail against hers she knew that this was exactly what she wanted. His happiness made her happy like nothing else and if just giving him the love she already felt for him could do that then she wanted to give him all of the love in the world.

Saracyn confessed his love and how deeply it ran, telling her how nothing was going to stop him from loving her forever, and she had no doubts that he meant it. In the back of her mind she heard the lessons they had gotten from their mother. She knew every word and had studied the Mendacium laws front to back. She knew the expectations that had been put on her as the next Matriarch, she knew that the laws stated that they would never find their soul mates in their siblings. Still... The way she felt when she was with Saracyn and the love she had for him couldn't be a fluke. All of this had to be real and if it was then what did that mean for them? Did this connection that she felt to him not make him her soul mate? They had already defied most of the Mendacium laws by being born as twins and being allowed to have both of them live. Could they continue to defy the laws when she was supposed to be the ones upholding them?

She leaned her cheek into his to chase away her doubts, breathing in his rich, uniquely Saracyn scent as her nose pressed into the fur of his neck. For tonight at least she didn't want to think about or consider any of that. She just wanted to live in the blissful ignorance of knowing that Saracyn was going to love her until the end of time and she could love him endlessly in return. She wasn't going to think about the consequences of that or how the family might react. For now it was just them tucked away in his room, concealed in the darkness of night with just their matching markings giving them light. She curled and shifted until she could press her face into the crook of his neck, slipping her forelegs around his sides as she clung to him and held him snuggly to her. "I just want to stay like this forever," she told him softly, closing her eyes and getting lost in his scent, his warmth, and the safety she felt being wrapped in his embrace—away from the pressure and expectations of everything else. She started to relax into him and the longer she laid there the more the sleep she had struggled to find before started to creep up on her. Part of her didn't want to sleep, she just wanted to keep living this perfect moment, but if she was going to have to sleep then at least it would be in Saracyn's arms.

"Avacyn Mendacium"