Sunbeam Lair ❝elyë lantanë melmessë sonen,❞

"My thoughts?"
She thought he might like to torment the both of them 'til that very fated and most favorable eve — yet estimated that it would be more prudent to whisper else. Professions, then, perhaps, personal:  "My thoughts are that such an undertaking is sound. My thoughts are that what you seek for ze good of your people is a sensible thing. My thoughts are that such things are perhaps very necessary, when wolves are spread so thin and their bellies endless and empty. My thoughts, Mahler,"  starlit eased from the faux kiss; peered again into the gemgaze,  "are selfish. No matter how I wish that it is not so—that I do not like this thing that must be done—"  peered again into the gemgaze, her own argents myriad sorrowful and tender,  "—my thoughts are that I wish also to give you my faith as you once gave unto me ... and so, I will support this choice, Mahler, with what grace yet remains with me."  No matter how she shivered to think of the bedding of others; the murmurings which she so believed had only been pressed to her temple, her cheek;
but, then, why ever envy? They had awakened another; refigured another time and time and time again. Shadowglim within halfsight; when put alongside his promise beneath those thundersoft tones, envious worry was promptly trivial ... was it not?

To speak so plain, so bold; taxing, for one such as she.

But within rabbitsoft eyes she has returned to herself, for this moment of all those they had since shared; longing now half-faded, and she has thus half-risen for his prompting;
waiting, now, for his own edict of her understandings. All that she longs to call him, to be near and for — he was within the soul of her. And if this be all she could offer and seem to the General within him ... then so it was. His mouth, his throat; the marred breast; the masonry of heart therein; her soul, crooning in hesitant contentment that it might be better for them to stave their yearnings until that making;
Andraste looks upon him all in listless thought, rousement quieted, as she.