Sunlight streamed through the open windows and birds happily sang their merry tunes. It was a signal to get up and get to work, but she did not want to wake. Therefore, she stayed put with her eyes closed, the longer she pretended to sleep, the longer they would have together. Death was a busy man, and Maewen had her own schedule to keep. Finding time to just relax and be together was hard. She would never be one of those women who had to be with their man all the time, the type of woman who had to know their husbands every move. Maewen did not want to be one of those women either; she had her own problems to deal with. Still, stolen moments like these, when it was just the two of them, made all of their work worth it. They were not people who got the chance to relax often.
They both knew that time was ending, but they wanted to preserve it as long as possible. She could feel his fingers running toying with a strand of her waist length hair. It was wavy from the braid she normally kept it in, and tangled from the events of the previous night, and the few hours of sleep she managed, but it might have been made of glass for how gentle his touch was. A soft sigh of contentment escaped her lips, and she finally opened her eyes to face reality, and what a reality it was. He had been watching her sleep, and she offered him a small smile before snuggling closer.
When she was a child, she had put Taemat on a pedestal. He had not necessarily been her hero, that distinction was for her father, but he had been so powerful, so beautiful, that she knew she would gladly become his servant. So she had trained extra hard with her father, but Taemat refused her. He had rejected her service because she was Ikali’s daughter and he did not want to anger him. Eventually she wormed her way into his employ, and set out to be his most trusted servant. She was not sure, when her lines of devotion had crossed into love, perhaps she had always been in love with him, but he was out of her reach. The thought that he could have loved her back then would have made her laugh. Therefore, she had buried her feelings and married a good man. In the end, she regretted that decision, she had never been able to give Os her heart, but she practically ripped his from his chest when she left.
She was happy now though. Sometimes she thought that perhaps Taemat was only with her to humor her, and perhaps at first that was exactly what he had been doing. It was hard to believe that was still the case, as he ran his fingers along her hair, bringing it up to his lips. She titled her head slightly and placed a kiss to his chest, before resting her head on the spot and closing her eyes. Her world was always so peaceful with him around. She did not feel like she was on the edge of the insanity cliff. When everything was chaos, he was her rock. And she, she was his taste of life. In his world of gloom and death, she was so very, very alive. They savored each other’s presence.
“We will eventually have to leave this bed.” She said reluctantly, there was no more pretending they were asleep.
“In a little while.” He replied putting his fingers under her chin and lifting it so he could press his lips against hers.
Perhaps waking up was not so awful. There was always the good morning kiss to look forward to.
[I decided my writing has been kinda depressing lately, so here's Maewen and Taemat being cute to brighten your day!]