icasm: (watch them fall)
π–”π–“π–‰π–˜π–π–†π–•π–˜π–Œπ–šπ–‰π–Šπ–“ ([personal profile] icasm) wrote2019-07-07 10:50 am
coquettish_trees: (sleeping)

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[ Of course, he says, as if she might know about Valkyries.

Alexandrie opens her mouth to askβ€” about Valkyries, about Midgardβ€” but is interrupted by a yawn born of a number of different kinds of exhaustion catching up with her of a sudden combined with the peace of holding a body that hers wants badly enough to recognize that it has convinced itself it does. Safe, it insists, returned, home, strong enough to let her trust that if she sleeps there will be a morning.

She'll remember. She'll ask then. For now she shifts a little to better curl herself around him and rests her head against his, closing her eyes with a sleepy and contented hum. ]