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[elegiaque]

“As it happens, I was.”

Guenievre perhaps did not have this in mind, particularly, when she had warned her daughter not to get her heart broken or her reputation ruined; Gwenaëlle is relatively sure the first one isn't going to happen and that the second...will be survivable, when it comes. Probably. There are many choices that will need to be made, in the future, but even before kissing him in the library it had seemed less and less likely that that future would be in Orlais.

Certainly unlikely it would look as any of her parents had imagined it. It's hard to reconcile, sometimes-

but she isn't second-guessing herself, doesn't regret. She is quite sure of where she is, and where she's meant to be.

[rowancrowned]

“Specifically,” he says, breath hot but brief at her ear, pulling her just a little bit closer, so they can lie chest-to-chest. “About large Rifter elves?”

More dangerous than the garden variety of elf, less tame, more dangerous.

“You are precious to me,” he says. “I would have no secrets between us. You know you can tell me whatever you like, and I will still love you, no matter what it is. I will not think less of you.”

His will test her, when she asks after them or when they are no longer secrets, but he is not speaking of those. Instead, he considers her ‘I am afraid’s, her ‘I need you’s. The help he has not yet pulled a promise to agree to ask for.

[elegiaque]

Her sigh is slow and more air than sound, breathed out against his collarbones, her body fit lissome to the line of his, her foot sliding up his leg like they're interlocking parts of some clever dwarven contraption, or, no - no, like rose vines cultivated to grow together, blooming different colours. Lovely things that don't keep secrets, except,

“You'll peel everything back from me and find there's nothing left underneath,” and it rings hollow where it should have been a joke.