❝ can you stop talking for just one moment & listen to me? ❞
words pause mid-sentence as athenarefrains from delivering her nth lecture- and its coats of unnecessary worry.she comes to realize again she was not faced with the youth of hypnos. no. now hewas grown- a man capable of his own decisions. the frustration reaches her earsand she nods, giving up. right. “go on,” the queen then nudges. she was curiousto what got her beloved brother drinking at such bright hours. but she holds backfrom a scolding- the father mentality of hers always raging to storm out- when shecomes to realize the other was still human. behind his title of royal andunderneath his crown of prince- hypnos was all everyone else was. all she wasbehind closed doors.
“it better not be any dumb love problems.”