@destinycrowned said : [ CARRIED ] / soft action prompts ——sender notices receiver is starting to get sleepy so they pick them up to carry them to bed.
———WENDY HAD ALWAYS been physically affectionate with arthur, but since she had been rescued, arthur had hardly let go of her, nor she him. she knew she was safe. they had already covered a good deal of ground to get her far away from that awful place. and the men who had kidnapped her were dead or grievously injured. ( she hadn’t asked, but she was certain of it. wendy had seen the blood on arthur and known not all of it was his. )
and it wasn’t as if arthur and wendy were alone. there were the knights. how she’d cried with joy to see them! they were her friends and she trusted each of them completely. she knew she was safe with them. but it was arthur that she truly, completely, felt safe with. arthur that she needed to see, or better to touch, to be convinced he was real and this was real and she really was rescued and going home.
as such, there was none of the usual playful protesting, the swats to the back of his head or barrage of complaints, when he picked her up. she only yawned and curled closer in to him. let herself be lulled by the thrum of his heart as he carried her back to camp.
as he set her down on her bed roll, sudden panic took her. wendy seized his arm. ❛ stay with me? ❜ she feared waking up in the dark, alone, sleep-filled mind not remembering where she was. she didn’t wish to think, even for a second, that she could still be a prisoner.
