“How about I take you fishing with me, and I’ll teach you how to scale them instead? You can’t come with me, it’s too dangerous.” though he was sure Aelwynn was going to grow up to be quite the brute regardless of what path she chose.
He stood and she wasn’t having it, “What are you waiting on?” he asked her, surprised that she wasn’t following him inside in general. Usually, Aelwynn was happy to spend most of her time attached to his hip, but she wasn’t having it today. Her answer had his blood running cold. “…What?” if there’d been the usual yelling and laughing and sounds of children beyond the front door, he’d take it as one of her weird imaginations, but there wasn’t. It was quiet and Seridyn was suddenly terrified that Wynnie had a legitimate reason to be sitting on the steps looking sad.
He walked to the front door, a hand on the hilt of his sword as he opened it slowly, preparing himself as much as he could for the possibility of a slaughter. Everything was quiet, the front room was without children, the house was silent. His fingers tightened around the handle of his sword and he made his way into the kitchen, only to see Elle standing there, her back to him, cooking dinner like nothing was wrong.
A loud breath of relief left him, emotions nearly bringing him to his knees and his hand went out to stabilize him against the doorframe/arch. “Fook Andi…” he breathed again, his other hand went to his chest over his heart, his eyes closing, “Wynnie told me you were all dead…”
“I can protect myself.” she promised, but she knew he wasn’t going to let her come. Even though she’d only help. “I was gonna keep it in my dresser. I cleaned out my underwear and everything.” Because raw meat of any sort in the top drawer of a dresser was a good idea. And when she said she cleaned it? What she really meant was that she took her underwear and shoved them in the closet. Cleaned!
He didn’t seem impressed by her game and when he walked into the main living area, she followed him curiously. Elle was in the kitchen, to his immediate left when he entered, her back to him, humming quietly to herself. But when he breathed out her name in relief, she turned.
There had been no word from him about when he’d be home. He just walked into their house after a month, like he’d been gone only hours. She let out a quick breath and rounded the kitchen counter to hug him tightly, abandoning her pan, but when he told her what Aelwynn had done, she froze a second in his arms and then pulled back. “Yes. I imagine she did. It’s her new favorite game to play… she pretends to be an orphan and I adopt her a few times a day. Sometimes I nurse her back to health from a grievous wound collected in battle, but most of the time I merely have to listen to how her family died.”
She chuckled, and laid her hand on his cheek, breathing in the sight of him. “Go wash up for dinner, Aelwynn.” she said, not removing her eyes from the man in front of her. And after Wynnie left for the bathroom, Elle gave him a brilliant smile. “I’ve missed you. You cannot imagine…”
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