#adrei

"Your enemy won't wait for you to recover, child," the steely voice of her mother accompanies the pain. By now, hours into the eight session of the week, Adrei's ironclad strength is leaving her. She has not been able to sleep for a couple of days because of the soreness of her burning limbs, and she is exhausted and spent.

Her mother hits her again. Adrei coughs droplets of saliva mixed with blood. "I... know," she rasps out, willing her body to endure. On trembling hands she swallows the pain and crawls upwards, the same icy eyes meeting her mother's.

A decade later, Adrei is the one looking down at her youngest sibling. They pant, clearly exhausted. Adrei waits. More than her mother would have. But her sibling doesn't raise, and as Adrei grows impatient, about to infer another blow, her sibling looks right at her.

There is fear in their gaze. Uncertainty, pain, and something that cries out to their eldest sister for help. Mercy.

Adrei takes a breath, then kneels and puts a hand firmly on their face, rough but oddly affectionate.

"... you always have to get up when you fall. If you don't, they will tear you apart."

Her sibling sniffles, but eventually they get up. Adrei is proud to see a spark of defiant resolve in them too.

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I have a specific thing I imagine where my mc begs her to stop because they're scared that if they aren't trained as hard, then they're gonna end up failing and becoming a disappointment to their parents

Ohh good question! Adrei, despite knowing this will not end well, pauses for a second and then starts going full force against her little sibling. She will hit and push MC while they use all they have to bear it, until they are almost scared she won't stop. Then she will draw close, look at MC with blank eyes, bearing something painful and guilty and hard behind them, and rasp out, before she attacks again, "you asked for this."

"Osia is a big meanie" they sign with their tiny hands.

Adrei: takes the baby up in her arms, and tries stiffly to rub their back. Silently marches up to Osia and commands "stop." Since it's Adrei, Osia stops for a few weeks. (Then she does it again, but when Adrei is around she limits herself a bit)

Ghaven: shushes MC, cuddles them and feeds them all the sweets their mum confiscated (ha! Ghaven has found them). They will make sure to organise evil pranks to Osia, one for every time they find baby MC upset. (At that point, Osia is so enraged with Ghaven that she kinda ignores baby MC)

Emyr: sighs, sadly. Hesitantly reaches out with one hand to comfort MC and if the baby crawls on his lap to cry he'll stay still and hold them. Will subtly invite baby MC to read with him more - to keep them away from Osia.

Saraah: panicks, tries to comfort MC and agrees that Osia is a meanie. If MC is very upset Saraah cries too. He either goes to angrily confront Osia (who, at this point, looks at him like a harmless gnome) or shuts himself in with MC to play and made them forget.

But she isn't mad, she's thought this through.

She has sins she needs to amend to. And if anyone tries to chain her up again she'll kill them.

She makes her way through the courtyard with heavy, dragged steps. She crushes the sword of a guard that dares standing between her and her horse. A loud crack echoes as she pushes the guard aside, a limp body colliding with stone and collapsing to the ground.

Someone screams, and Adrei advances.

WHo cares.

She needs to get to her brother. Emyr is in pain and Adrei has allowed that suffering to take place for years, doing absolutely nothing. She swore, as he was departing from the House to be wed, that they would see each other again.

Twice. Twice have she met her brother since then. What she has is fifteen years of letters in which her brother withdrew more and more, parchment becoming progressively more crumpled, stained with ink as if he didn't even have the energy to write anymore. And she did nothing.

But NO MORE.

Her mare neighs, agitated, as she mounts it and pushes it to a fast gallop.

1) Ghaven Osia thinks Ghaven is too sneaky and also a coward, because Ghaven definitely doesn't have the same priorities as her. Also because Cathair's forces were supposed to join the Venegards but didn't at the end. (And Osia hates it, but she's intimidated by Cathair)

2) Emyr because Osia thinks he's spineless and useless. She has bullied him as ruthlessly as MC if not more, and never once has he tried to stand up for himself. He just ignored her or got away.

3) MC if MC is mute, they shift to the top place, as she thinks they're kind of defective and make the whole House weaker.

4) Radel because he's nuts and kinda freaks out Osia a bit. But he scored a good marriage so at least he's doing his job

5) Saraah. Not her favourite by far, but she enjoys picking on him, because he fights back but also in a way that amuses Osia. But she also finds him kinda broken. His kind of magic is volatile and not easily applicable, so she thinks he's another one that her parents made wrong and far from useful. He's also gay (and Osia is homophobic because he won't have heirs)

When Emyr woke up, he didn't expected to have sliced cucumbers along his face, nor did he expect to seeing his older and younger brothers whisking some sort of a gooey mix, while excitedly muttering how much skin care they'd get to work on him after all these years.

And so, when Ghaven walked up to him and applying the mixture on him, Emyr did what others mostly seen on him. He doesn't move at all, too numb to fight back even within a dream that feels like long ago.

Until Saraah, with his own beauty mask still on, eyes stand out among the sliced cucumbers and awkward little braids that somehow reminds Emyr of the one MC used to do with his eyes, look at him with a blank expression, poked his daydreams.

"...Are you seriously thinking you're still just dreaming, my dearest brother who keeps him away from us?"

Saraah's always managed to poke on others nerves, and they're never been easy to get it away.

Instantly, Emyr crawls out his bed, pushing away both his brothers as he flings himself to the nearest window and opens it.

And that's when he knew there's no way back now.

Emyr looks down along the window. He watches as his oldest sister, Adrei, keeps tight hold of Mordred, the only young child he can think so living with the Queen, and there's Radel, his youngest brother, who seems to be in better and healthier states as before, given how he can heard the latter go out his way teaching flowers to their little nephew.

But what holds most is when he saw — the one and last of them all, the youngest one, his little sister who's been trying to get hold of him, who's still reach out despite his distance — appears among the garden.

Emyr always know she'd been beautiful. But nothing can't stop him from worrying back when Adrei's letters come through about her going on battlefields. He'd remember what's like back then for him, his mind goes through those eyes resembling of the purest pearl that always soothe him, when he's still young, and could get a firm hold of his little sibling in his arms.

Ghaven weren't surprised at all. When Emyr's stunned. They kept silence as Saraah sneaks back up to Emyr and offer painful but nonetheless comforting touches, "Yeah, yeah, I know too." His next words, though, ouch. "After all these times... Can't belive we're all together again, huh? Except for Osi—— OCEANA! I mean that boring kingdom in the old mermaid tale! OCEANA! Emyr, stop hitting me! Ah! Ouch!"

If isn't the fact Emyr's still too timid (they'd change it, given now where they are) to even commit a murder, Ghavem would've step in to stop them from a supposedly crime scene. Still, they moves up between both their brothers, and cast away Saraah who's now running off to join in the rest in garden.

He didn't spoke anything. Waiting patiently for Emyr.

"I... H-how did... Is the King——" How did I got here? Is the King aware of this? "W-What will... I can't... They'd got... Of me... S..." What will happen to them? What will happen to you and Saraah? I can't be here! They'd get me! You'd get killed because of me! Sent me back! "I... I... Ah——..."

Emyr crumbles at last. Luckily, Ghaven's there to make sure their knees wouldn't hurt much as they catch him as they gradually fall to the ground. Ah, Adrei'd lecture them on this, definitely. Being too harsh on the joke.

"To answer your questions." They pulls him up back to the bed and throws up every warm blankets from the one mother hen knight closed to their little one. "MC'd been plotting to get you here since the last time we all met. Ironically, your... former house, got some issues."

Emyr don't need to hear anymore to know what's been going around. So he decided to do the thing he's been good at. He closes his eyes, nodding off soundly in his found peace as Ghaven lights up a few candles.

Osia can screw off. Emyr thinks. She can't do no harm to him now that he's faraway than she'll ever think.

A-And... He'd like to hug everyone when he's awake.

(Sorry for grammatic mistakes =+