Deepwood Weald Moon, you want to be a mother [M]

Calm fell upon him, and his respiration flowed in tandem with that of his lover. It was everything they had achieved, and the sweet promise of everything else they could still do that brought Damien his calm these days, and it was the first time in his life that he had ever felt truly at ease. Not once throughout his childhood had Damien been so well accompanied than these days, with a powerhouse consort to bear his children and a whole battalion of Meloniis that supported his claim and believed in his vision. Nothing could stop them now.

It was just before his mind drifted away into a dream that his lover said those three words for the first time ever. 'I love you'. And they have most likely also been the first time Damien had actually believed those words coming from someone who was not his mother. She had said it only a couple times, and still, they had been the one thing that had kept him going after her tragic death. Now he had someone new and worthy of saying them again, and it filled Damien's heart with a warmth he'd barely even dreamt of before in his life. First, he had to make sure he'd heard it, and after he confirmed it, he could only savor the strange feeling that ran through his chest before saying, with all confidence, and absolutely honestly: I love you too, ñuha hūra