Maeve tried to interrogate her about the game board until she went to bed. Of course, she recognized it instantly, but Julianna just brushed her off with vague answers about it being a gift. She didn't know from who. It had just been in her room. Julianna told her handmaiden that she was making such a big deal out of nothing up until she went to bed with the secret that it was much more than nothing. With the secret that her first kiss had been with the brash but charming emperor from Eskra.
"You lost, by the way," Maeve informed Julianna in the morning as she brushed her hair.
"What do you mean?" Julianna looked up from the correspondence she had been working on to view the blonde's face in the mirror.
"The game," she explained, nodding up to the war game she had tidied up and left on Julianna's vanity.
Julianna laughed. "Oh. Well, I wasn't playing with anyone," she lied. "I was trying to figure it out."
Maeve only hummed in a clear indication that she didn't believe her but said nothing else about the manner. She finished styling the queen's hair in silence and they left the private chambers together to go for a walk.
Julianna had a feeling that Maeve was trying to lead her in a certain direction, but her ears twitched to the sound of a commotion on the courtyard. "Any idea what's going on out there?" she asked, tail swaying back and forth. Julianna wore a blue gown that fell off her shoulders and was deliberately chosen for the emperor's attention. It was similar to the brilliant blue of the Eskran banner and revealed the spots on her skin she'd noticed him gazing at the previous evening. She wondered how he would feel about the color on her.
"I have no idea," Maeve replied, quickly. "Perhaps, we should retire to the quiet library."
Maeve suggestion fell on deaf, twitching ears that were following the sounds in the opposite direction.
Drawing closer revealed that the ruckus in question was an impromptu training session. From the top of the stairs the queen could see soldiers from both sides participating in some friendly sparring. Maeve followed against her better judgement and stood next to the queen. "A bit of a foolish spectacle, don't you think?"
"I think it looks like fun," Julianna replied with a smile. Soldiers and servants had formed a bit of a half-circle as an impromptu sparring ring. One of her personal guards, Sairus, was currently engaged with an Eskran soldier she didn't recognize. She nudged Maeve's side with her elbow. "Look, Lord Hartwydt and Master Rivers are here."
"Yes, I see them," the handmaiden replied, unamused, but violet eyes flickered to the dark-haired advisor standing next to his own ruler at the edge of the ring.
"You lost, by the way," Maeve informed Julianna in the morning as she brushed her hair.
"What do you mean?" Julianna looked up from the correspondence she had been working on to view the blonde's face in the mirror.
"The game," she explained, nodding up to the war game she had tidied up and left on Julianna's vanity.
Julianna laughed. "Oh. Well, I wasn't playing with anyone," she lied. "I was trying to figure it out."
Maeve only hummed in a clear indication that she didn't believe her but said nothing else about the manner. She finished styling the queen's hair in silence and they left the private chambers together to go for a walk.
Julianna had a feeling that Maeve was trying to lead her in a certain direction, but her ears twitched to the sound of a commotion on the courtyard. "Any idea what's going on out there?" she asked, tail swaying back and forth. Julianna wore a blue gown that fell off her shoulders and was deliberately chosen for the emperor's attention. It was similar to the brilliant blue of the Eskran banner and revealed the spots on her skin she'd noticed him gazing at the previous evening. She wondered how he would feel about the color on her.
"I have no idea," Maeve replied, quickly. "Perhaps, we should retire to the quiet library."
Maeve suggestion fell on deaf, twitching ears that were following the sounds in the opposite direction.
Drawing closer revealed that the ruckus in question was an impromptu training session. From the top of the stairs the queen could see soldiers from both sides participating in some friendly sparring. Maeve followed against her better judgement and stood next to the queen. "A bit of a foolish spectacle, don't you think?"
"I think it looks like fun," Julianna replied with a smile. Soldiers and servants had formed a bit of a half-circle as an impromptu sparring ring. One of her personal guards, Sairus, was currently engaged with an Eskran soldier she didn't recognize. She nudged Maeve's side with her elbow. "Look, Lord Hartwydt and Master Rivers are here."
"Yes, I see them," the handmaiden replied, unamused, but violet eyes flickered to the dark-haired advisor standing next to his own ruler at the edge of the ring.
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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