LAP (now it's the right blog u_u)
﹙ prompt . @4tunes . accepting. ﹚. he doesn't remember falling asleep here. with the window ajar and the breeze blowing in through the sheer red curtains .. ren recalls minrathous' docks. the gull culling, the people shouting, and the constant shimmer of the sea. eyes flutter closed for a moment as thought withdraw to caesar's bodily warmth. head resting just beside the hip. the warden stirs slightly, deep breath in, out. fingers reach and curl around caesar's calf. then ren feels them oh so softly tug his head onto their lap, the new position readily accepted. that's when he remembers his dream. or was it a memory?
" do you remember the river? " he asks softly. " spending every day in the summer there .. i found you, i mean. then we'd play until we were tired. then nap .. just like this until it was cold under the moon. bellies grumbling so hard.. " ren chuckles. he'd complain a lot as a kid. i'm hungry. i'm tired. for a lanky kid to eat so much and still be thin as a willow seedling. that's a mystery. how his sisters would scold them both for abandoning their duties to the clan. ren would feel absolutely awful and cry but caesar .. steadfast caesar .. " oh, i took every opportunity to do whatever you did. even if it frightened me half to death. "
oh how he missed those simpler days. what smile those memories brought, ren finds himself frowning. swallowing it down, he presses his ear against caesar's thigh, chasing the dream away. almost hesitantly, ren turns onto his back, looking up at caesar half-expectedly, " did you know .. my mother always encouraged me to follow you? said it was good for me to get around. 'be adventurous!' she said. 'he's good for you.' "
