@gevivella sent : ❝ a cloud hangs over you. is something wrong? ❞
mouth not brimming with laughter for once, gerion closes his eyes against an impending headache — the heartache is already there, pressing against his chest and threatening to squeeze all his precious organs. it is not anger that makes his jaw lock tight, rather fear, suffocating and far more obvious than he would hope, apparently. but of course, he must look some degree of distraught, pain etched across otherwise much more at ease features, for rhaella to notice by way of just glancing at him. lion cub likes her, has done so from the start, and so he doesn't brush it off.
❛ mother is sick again. she — will not be having supper with us later. ❜ gerion forces the words out of his mouth, but he also pushes forth some semblance of a smile, a hard press to his lips, something a little fierce there too. ❛ oh, and tygett is a bother, but that is nothing new. ❜ even when he had viciously muttered it's your fault to him just a few minutes earlier, gerion had kept his calm, teeth well behind his snapped shut mouth. he didn't have to do anything at all — just one word, with just the right tone, from tywin had sent their brother out of the room in seconds. scowling, sure, but with his tail carefully tucked between his legs. small victories. ❛ he thinks i shouldn't have been born at all. because she started feeling worse after having me. ❜
