KAIA'S ALWAYS BEEN AN EXCELLENT JUDGE OF CHARACTER, and, unseelie or not, she truly believes that aurora is a good person with a good heart. and, despite their differences on the surface, she thinks the two of them are quite alike. they’re both queens, both wear the weight of their title and the responsibilities that come along with it on their shoulder, like atlas carrying the world. sometimes it feels like kaia’s carrying the world, and she imagines aurora understands that feeling. it may even be worse for her, seeing as the unseelie’s are so… restricted and cold. seelie faes may be arrogant and vain, but they are open, affectionate, and full of love.
❛ i quite wish my mother were here. she always knew what to do, and i feel… ❜ she shrugs, sighing heavily. ❛ i feel like i’m stumbling around blind. ❜ the seelie queen looks at aurora, bashfully, a little worried she’s oversharing. ❛ but then i remember what she told me before she died. that i was a queen, and that my heart would always tell me what was right and what was wrong. and all of my heart says that this peace treaty is right. ❜ she feels it not just with all of her heart, but with every fibre of her being. and that is what keeps her going whenever she doubts.
❛ i apologize, that was a lot to unload on you. ❜ she huffs out a short laugh. ❛ but i would quite like us to become friends, aurora. not just allies and associates. and i am completely open to any and all ideas you have to make this change easier on our kingdoms. ❜ kaia nods at aurora’s words, her smiling widening, friendly and welcoming. ❛ — we may talk about whatever you like. ❜
SUCH WEIGHT. she’s still smiling despite it. perhaps a night of forgetting queenly duties might not be the worst thing to possibly happen. she relaxes further, taking a blanket off the back of her chair and wrapping herself in it. aurora stays quiet when kaia starts sharing similar sentiments, gaze turning from the fire to the queen beside her. the unseelie queen and her mother have a unique relationship. she can’t say she wouldn’t be sad if she was dead, but it’s a little difficult to say she’d miss her. they’ve never been close and part of ro knows it’s because of her father, ever the unseelie king is he. her expression softens at the mention of kaia’s mother’s death, her shoulders relaxing as she curls up further into the chair, already beginning to feel more comfortable now that they’re sharing more of themselves with one another. maybe, even though they’re two queens from opposite ends, they aren’t so different after all.
“SINCE YOU’RE being so honest, it’s only fair i do the same.” even though she can already hear her parents screaming at her not to. she exhales softly, clearing her throat and resting her head on her hands on the back of the chair she sits in, “when i was born, my parents had a plan," can kaia tell she's nervous to be talking about this so openly? "and i was raised to enact that plan... this plan was to take advantage of the prophecy of peace and destroy the seelie kingdom.” her lips purse, cheeks flushing with shame, “but i like to think that perhaps things are changing.” she smiles sheepishly, “don’t you?”
