Echtrae [closed]
It takes everything to stop herself from making some incomprehensible sound at Diarmuid’s tone. Right … he’s done this before. Not with himself, naturally, but with his own children — the children he’d had with his perfect wife, in his perfect castle, in his perfect homeland. Of course he wouldn’t care that Medusa couldn’t give him any of that: who in his right mind would step down from the most beautiful woman in Ireland to a Greek monster, anyhow?
She sees a life flash before her: the one she would never have, and the one she’s always wanted. A gentle husband at her side, surrounded by her birth children — the life, ironically, that Diarmuid already has behind him, and the one that has permanently escaped her grasp now. It’s no use dwelling in what cannot be, she knows this, and yet a poignant ache still lingers in her heart, even as she tries to brush it aside.
A quiet inhale marked by a slightly louder exhale ought to do the trick. Somehow she’s ended up having more stress than she’d bargained for today, and it’s all thanks to one so-called knight.
She inclines her arm to the side, her thumb extended and pointing in the larger Diarmuid’s direction. To the child, she replies with a simple “I think it looks good, don’t you?”
The closest she’s ever come to children were her two younger siblings and so her rustiness is apparent, yet there’s a notable softness to her now that hadn’t been there before. This little boy, however he grows up, is currently young and innocent — a lethal combination which is sure to pull out the maternal instinct of this overly protective Servant.
As though looking for some guidance, her face briefly flickers in her partner’s direction before falling back on the child. ”What … other tricks do you know?”
Although she did not speak Diarmuid seemed vaguely aware of some disturbance within the woman's mind. With one hand carefully keeping the young one from falling off the bed he glanced towards her with an unspoken question only for the insufferable female to have seemingly already suppressed whatever had been causing her displeasure.
It was almost strange that he understood such a private woman at all by now.
"It'sh pretty."
The boy was quick to agree with Medusa's words even while the elder lingered within his own thoughts. Not recognizing that she was even looking for assistance on how to speak to a child he instead gave her a quick wave as if to say 'you take over' when he stepped away. "If you watch him, I'll make dinner to repay you." Voice low and with a smile lingering upon his expression, Diarmuid allowed his hand to fall so as to brush up against her's before he was turning away with a barely disguised sigh of weariness.
"...?"
In the meantime the smaller of the two Diarmuid's seemed to be lost in his own thoughts. It was almost as though he were taking her question seriously out of an innate desire to impress the much older woman. "Tricks..." The boy repeated the word, brows furrowing for a moment before a grin appeared once more upon his charming face.
"I'm the beeest hider y'know."
Just ask the elder one about all his trouble earlier. (Or Fionn when he grows older.)
"No one can EVER find me."














