@UNIVURS / ZACHARIAH VALOIS
SHE STEPS INTO HER LOFT after her night check of the horses, and is surprised to see her lover already there, sitting on the cot. and aurelia smiles at him, coming over to sit in his lap, a hand cupping his cheek as she kisses him softly. with all the fuss of the king’s death the past few weeks, she’s rarely gotten to see her prince, and she finds it curious --- but not unhappy, of course --- that he’s here tonight. ❛ oh, how i have missed gazing upon your face. --- how are you fairing? we haven’t had the chance to speak in days. ❜ it’s taken all her strength not to visit him in the dead of night, not to steal him away into one of their secret rendezvous spots around the castle. but she’s managed to give him the distance he needs to grieve his father, knowing that he’d come to her when he was ready. and here he is. ❛ tell me what’s weighing on your heart, my prince, and let me see if i’m able to ease some of that weight. ❜