@balsamina x
”I don’t care. I can’t look any worse than I do everyday, right?”
He tried to give a humorous pull in their reunion, but it came out in a botched cross between a cough, a twinge of pain, and a somewhat teary laugh. Oh to see her so shaken up...it hurt him more than the bullet wound. So it seemed that news came to her that he went missing? And the incident that followed after? It couldn’t be helped as much as he tried to hide it.
Mohn never wanted her to see her falter, not even for a moment.
-- She was the matriarch, the foundation, the warlord, and a Queen put it simply-
If he fell so be it, but let nothing shake the Empress.
In a moment he found himself slipping past her trembling hold to press his face into hers reveling in the warmth of her face and the bitter-sweet smell of her delicate perfume in deep inhales. While he was laying in the sands taking shaking breaths he feared he’d never get to experience her ever again. His lips followed through just as longing, finding them peppering her brow somehow desperate before resting at the corners of her eye.
By now slow tears rolled down the side of his face.
It was worth the pinch of pain to hold her close again.
“I don’t think I could rest until I saw you were okay.”