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She looks lovingly down at Esinakh as she bumps into her brother's rear. "Hello, Esi," she croons towards her youngest daughter. Perhaps the two just want some mother-child time with her. Even now she's stepped down from General, she is still a busy woman, and downtime to spend with her twins does not happen often.
Tembovu's arrival makes her doubt this, however. She dips her head respectfully at her king, feeling the usual frisson of excitement at his proximity. In her mind, Dominus gives a hearty growl - he's hunting some unsuspecting lemmings in the snow on the other side of the Edge, so he unfortunately cannot continue his hate-hate saga with Mbwene. Arakh begins to speak, and Nyx's heart begins to race. Want to leave Edge. "No," she chokes out before she's even had chance to register the words. Her beloved twins, leave? They're barely weaned! Do they care nothing for their mother, to try and abandon her so soon? Selfishly, she'd thought they would stay forever. Her eldest children are gone, Oizys is never affectionate....her twins are her last link to happiness, the last vestiges of her nest. "You are both far too young." But even as the words leave her lips, she ponders them. Is she being incredibly selfish by preventing them leaving? It's only fair that they want to know their paternal siblings - Oizys certainly isn't a shining example of their maternal ones, given her dismissiveness towards them. How can she stop them entering the world? How can she wrap them in cotton wool purely because she's scared to lose them? She should admire their tenacity and their desire to leave safety for the unknown. They say childbirth is the hardest thing a woman has to go through. They are wrong - this is. "I..." She looks to Tembovu, half-hoping that he will prevent them leaving, but knowing that is unlikely. Her half-pegasus children must spread their wings. Arakh presses his bull-horned head into her leg, and Nyx feels droplets budding behind her eyes. "I....will visit you every day," she says, and she buries her face in her son's tufty mane to hide her tears. |
@Esinakh
Other characters have permission to use magic/violence against Nyx at any time.
