[OOM] Eiattu - Palace Courtyard

[fighting_mad]

Plourr is in a tree.

It's not quite as strange as it might originally sound; she and Rial make a point of taking at least a day to themselves per week, and she tends to hightail it outside. The courtyard is small and overgrown, forgotten long ago; wild and beautiful, flowers spreading across all. The tree is low and sturdy and Plourr is sprawled across a heavy branch, her back against the trunk and one leg dangling, her foot nearly touching the ground. The tree is just under the overhang that leads into the 'yard, and, eyes closed against a ferocious headache, she listens to the rain pound the leaves, the soil, the overgrown pathways.

She always did love Eiattu's rainy season. She likes it even more, now. She doesn't look out across the plains and wish that she were riding; not in this mess.

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[eiattu_pride]

"Good Empresses do not make that sort of noise," Rial informs her, setting her down lightly a few feet away.

"What would the general populace think?"

[fighting_mad]

"Nothing, because they are never going to hear that sound, and we are never going to speak of it again." She places her hand on the back of his shoulder, fingertips pointing up, and she draws herself in, tucking her private smile against his neck. She did, after all, promise a dance if she was caught.

They're both soaked, standing under the jerjerian trees and the gray Eiattu sky, and Plourr doesn't mind in the least.

[eiattu_pride]

"Of course, my princess." One hand wraps around her waist but the other creeps up to brush a soaking wet strand of hair out of her eyes, lingering on her skin.

"May I have this dance?"

[fighting_mad]

"I think you're already having it, my count." Standing scandalously close, swaying to silent music, Rial's arm around her waist (already a little thicker, just a little, than it once was), is like no dance form that Plourr was ever taught, but she likes it better.

She leans back just enough that she can see him, and she smiles at him, at his fingers on her brow.

[eiattu_pride]

"I suspect I am," he says, and his smile is quiet as he sways there, on the spot. Sooner or later they will need to go in, but for now-
beneath the stars came falling on our heads
-for now he's not an Emperor. For now, she's no Empress and the child in her belly is not the future heir to the throne. For now they're not surrounded by people.
kissed me 'til the morning light
For now, it's just Rial, and Plourr, and the sound of the rain falling softly from the heavens.
you are my sweetest downfall
For now, they're alone.
I loved you first