save me

It had surprised him to see she had slept beside him, cloudy minded and drowsy it hadn't entered his mind as he drifted off to sleep. Now as he awoke, like the sun appearing from behind the clouds of a storm that seemed to never end, he woke freshed and with a clear mind. He smiled at his sleepy queen, watched the rise and fall of her softly red coat as she spoke drowsy tones of half sleep. He knew the moment it seemed to go through her and the sleep fell away, she looked at him and he smiled back at her, radient and full of life for the first time in forever. ?You did? he agreed, moving forward to nuzzle against the side of her face ? not even thinking about the inapproiateness of doing so to his queen. He was lost in the moment, the freedom of health and when his skin brushed against her no longer did it burn and ache, but felt soft and welcoming.

"Speech"