Broken Antler Fen Let your arms be a place she feels safe in

we can aw this if you want it to be intros!  but for now leaving it small

Maia thought she would never get tired of this, resting and feeling @Eljay beside her.  Now I never have to, she thought giddily, yawning and shifting, ever so slightly, to close what little space had opened up as she slept.  She didn't know yet if he was still asleep or not and she didn't want to move enough to find out for fear of waking him up.  He'd looked like he needed the rest.

As happy as she was, she knew this wasn't all good.  There was a lot going on that she couldn't understand - like how Eljay felt leaving the Caldera behind, and how the Caldera would feel losing him to their neighbors.  Would they be upset enough to come here?  Was Eljay just upset now, but later, would he regret being so hasty and want to go back?

The second part, weirdly, didn't scare her as much as it should have.  She just hoped he would share it if the time came and that was true because she knew now that, without a doubt, wherever he went she went.  It was maybe a bit of bitter irony she'd figured that out now, but being around him always made it clearer how much she couldn't stand being apart - and now, he'd be around all the time.  So even outside of their change in status, any questions she had were gone.

Maia Blackthorn.  She couldn't get over it.  When she was younger, she'd always pictured the traditional proposal... but in the end, she guessed she just couldn't wait.  She'd let him lead in almost every other aspect... first to say 'like', first to (officially) say 'love'.  She guessed it was just kind of her turn... and she was incapable now of regretting it, no matter how different it had been in her head.