Sunbeam Lair one last breath 'til the tears start to wither

Fennec couldn’t see it, but Meadow’s features drifted downward—the corners of her mouth displaying the sober thought of being with another by what seemed very much contractual—and yet surprised she did not feel relief at the notion that Germanicus’s wife was there only as title.

Typical Meadow, she talked to the woman for five minutes and found herself liking her enough to start shipping them both, even if it cluttered her own heart and mind with discontent.

Still, Fennec was a mystery to her—the discussion of pups brought about so openly, as was her marriage—even more, the fact that Mereo required a certain… personality to call a home. “I don’t think Mereo is a place I would be content,” she quietly offered, if only to solidify that in her mind. She had promised herself to Epoch—Tamar and her family. It had never been a consideration for her to move away, even for a man she loved.

“More kids,” she offered—trying to veer on what she hoped was a happier topic for her companion as she begun to drift through the cave opening, eyes looking to the ground for anything of use in the dead of winter. “That means you have kids now?” It was hard picturing Germanicus a stepfather—but her heart twinged at the moments he had shared with her—his happiest memory, of holding his newborn children while Ruenna slept in recovery.