Sunbeam Lair singulus

eb, you epic thread partner you. always giving me the juicy plot points. <3 ty for this thread.

A younger Meadow would have perhaps pulled her lip to her teeth, nibbling in unease as the man hawkishly stared at her. He considered her—and when he responded after such a long pause in only five syllables she felt a brow arch delicately , but he was not done—

And thus, it seemed, he had been watching her just as closely as she had watched him. A soldier trained for the keenest observation, and so she shouldn’t have been so surprised at his findings—findings that caused her to sweep her eyes down to herself, wondering how she seemed to appear before him.

“It’s all I’ve ever known,” she offered in return, a slow smile playing at her lips as her eyes studied him far more openly now. “Well met, Imperator,” she reiterated, bending down to pick up her piece of aloe once more and continue her way back home—knowing this interlude was one that would certainly stay with her awhile.