The queen was left speechless by Owen's bold claim that he did in fact intend to marry her. The black piece she had been toying with slipped from her fingers and clattered on to the table. She startled and quickly covered it with her hand to silence the noise. Her ears made a flat plane off the side of her head and she stared down at her hand over the piece, avoiding his smirking gaze for the moment. His statement was in full defiance of her arrangement with Delenveaux. Her thoughts drifted back to their conversation earlier in the day. That he would support her against the other nation if she needed.
Her ears popped to attention, matching her unvoiced thought process. Had marriage always been his intent?
The topic of marriage was shelved for a moment, which was good for her because she needed a moment to collect herself after his surprise reveal. Should it have been a surprise? Or was she just foolish? Honestly, she couldn't say.
Owen regaled her with his tale of the bear and how a goddess raised him as her champion. The emperor continued to surprise her at every turn. Not because she had ever underestimated him. Oh, certainly not. He could likely kill her with his bare hands if he wanted to and had to be smart as a whip to have raised a usurped nation like he had done with Eskra.
His connection to divinity made her think of her own goddess, Phaedra, the mother of the lynxes. The Veridian people saw their queen as anointed, as their goddess in material form. Sent to bless them and care for them. Julianna had never felt particularly divine, but she did not share this with the emperor, yet.
Because her mind kept drifting back to that singular bold little sentence. They way he said 'as would I' with that knowing curve to his mouth as he watched her burn with embarrassment. "I assumed your stop in Veridian was a just a visit," she said by means of investigating this claim. "On your way to Kelmont. That perhaps you were looking to forge a political alliance before moving on."
Her ears popped to attention, matching her unvoiced thought process. Had marriage always been his intent?
The topic of marriage was shelved for a moment, which was good for her because she needed a moment to collect herself after his surprise reveal. Should it have been a surprise? Or was she just foolish? Honestly, she couldn't say.
Owen regaled her with his tale of the bear and how a goddess raised him as her champion. The emperor continued to surprise her at every turn. Not because she had ever underestimated him. Oh, certainly not. He could likely kill her with his bare hands if he wanted to and had to be smart as a whip to have raised a usurped nation like he had done with Eskra.
His connection to divinity made her think of her own goddess, Phaedra, the mother of the lynxes. The Veridian people saw their queen as anointed, as their goddess in material form. Sent to bless them and care for them. Julianna had never felt particularly divine, but she did not share this with the emperor, yet.
Because her mind kept drifting back to that singular bold little sentence. They way he said 'as would I' with that knowing curve to his mouth as he watched her burn with embarrassment. "I assumed your stop in Veridian was a just a visit," she said by means of investigating this claim. "On your way to Kelmont. That perhaps you were looking to forge a political alliance before moving on."
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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