(Directed towards both Prim and Thomas) ♤:die for your muse :,C
It was unexpected, really. It happened so fast and they should have been ready for it. Primrose thought that very clearly. She had time. It was all - so slow around her. Perhaps it was the goddess blessing her for one final feat.
Only moments before they had been so happy. Their daughter, their beautiful, precious, amazing daughter had been found by their spies and spotted getting into a boat to cross the lake during the release of the lanterns. Primrose had gestured two of their courtiers to take over - automatically - she had been barely thinking straight (and that was why they were in trouble now, wasn’t it Rothaid?) as they gathered a light disguise and a handful of supplies before taking the fastest horses to the other side of the lake.
They weren’t to know a few important meetings had not happened in their life story and one important meeting was happening a fraction too early. They weren’t to know how it would pan out, but they should have been prepared.
Their daughter - (Rapunzel, she called herself) - beautiful, graceful, glowing and radiant with a young man Primrose found familiar except for his nose - had been near the lake when they got there and perhaps it had been the magic of the evening but she believed them somehow - it was a jumble and there was crying and embraces and love.
Primrose felt it in her bones, not her heart, when Thomas fell to the red-headed assassin’s knife. He died almost instantly, his eyes open and surprised as though he hadn’t understood why he was being asked to leave his wife and daughter so soon. There were two of the men, two tall, strong - bulky men. Two she might be able to take with the aid of her daughter’s young man but he was already out of action and Rose - Primrose - Rothaid - mother knew that it would not do to be killed or taken hostage or to only take down one of these giants for as surely as she was still breathing they wanted her little girl.
Time slowed a little then, became liquid and flowed around her - giving her the volva’s power of slipping a little faster than most from moments to moment. The first of the men was simple enough. She had rage and grief on her side. She killed and killed well - in a way that would have pleased her father. His other - twin? - took her blind side and got a strike in - deeper than she would have liked. Rose slid around him, pulled away and hit back. They struggled and she knew she would die as well this night but she was not going to let this man live on in the same space as her daughter.
He got her again the same time that she took her hidden blade and rammed it into his throat. She pushed herself to Thomas, took his hand and squeezed. There was time for a last prayer, perhaps, a breath of blessing for her lost princess. Primrose (mother) refused to say goodbye so soon after she said hello. Instead she just smiled and said I love you.










