into the dust we go

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Liv sighed, immediately shaking her head as she turned to look back down at the grimoire in front of her. Her seriousness got the better of her ever since she became the coven leader. She tried, but she definitely think she's made some progress since her ascension those years ago. "I never expected to have to be a teacher to someone entirely new. There are people who have told me not to help, but I'm trying," she pointed to the spell halfway down the page on her right. "This was the spell I had used earlier."

Standing in her war chamber when the stranger was brought in with an escort, Rhaenyra mustered her and picked up on the Targaryen looks. Another bastard, she assumed, but one who had been more capable at claiming a dragon than most of the others. Clasping her hands before her, Rhaenyra allowed the woman to approach. "You were brave to land on an island with an unfamiliar dragon and without an invitation amidst a war. Who are you and what has led you to Dragonstone?", she asked calmly, glancing at the guards still flanking the strangers, who seemed tense.

the halls of the castle all felt so unfamiliar to her that she couldn't help but glance back and forth between the walls. sure she kept her pace with the knights, but her curiosity to study her surroundings did distract her a little. hesene felt herself being guided into a large room and soon her eyes fell upon another woman. they must've been important by the actions she noticed from the other knights. once the question had been posed, she nodded. the situation was peculiar, sure, but she had reasons. "I heard the call for people to claim a dragon and felt like I should try," she paused, taking one step closer. "But my name is Hesene. I am from Volantis."

Her mama carefully brings her back to her bed, and Vaella sinks into the pillows, sniffling a little. Little hand feebly reaches, trying to cling to her mother, as if to prevent her from going anywhere. She wants her mama, wants her papa, not the maesters or nursemaids. Bottom lip quivering, she looks up at Kiera, violet eyes glazed with fever, "Ma-Mama, I do-don't feel good..."

As they both were in the bed she adjusted her position so her legs dangled over the edge. "I know baby," her voice carried a soft tone. She felt as though it would maybe hurt less since there was no real need to yell, not yet anyways. "Would you like to try and drink some tea? Mama will help," she suggested, hoping the idea of her helping could make it easier. It felt a good first action to try and help heal Vaella and calm her symptoms. Her eyes had caught the little cup of tea nearby as well.

jules laughed a little as they shook their head. they had a firm grip on their tripod in one hand and phone in the other. "we may not always like what's going on in our lives, but we push through it anyways," they nodded. jules placed their phone into their pocket before reaching to pat their brother's shoulder. "i'm here to try and keep you out of trouble too, you know."

The kiss to her forehead was unexpected, as everything else had been so far this evening. It seemed almost as if it was a very elaborate dream, after all she wasn't meant to have a happy ending was she? At least that's what her mother had made her believe, what she too believed up until this moment. But maybe she'd changed enough that she would be able to deserve a happy ending now. "That is the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me"

It had taken far too much time for Henry to get to this point and he'd probably beat himself up about it more later. He hoped his little idiocy didn't ruin anything yet. Though once he heard those words leave Drizella's lips, he stopped dwelling on it for the time being. "What do you say then? Would you like to be with me and start that happy ending journey?" he looked down into her eyes, smiling big. Of course he hoped she would say yes, but it felt right to ask and have it out in the open.

elijah ignored the way chloe’s melissa’s hand felt COLD against his cheek, like a dead thing come to life and wasn’t that exactly what she was? a CORPSE in an androids shell? no longer flesh and blood, but thirium and WIRES. what he hadn’t told melissa, not even when she was alive, was that SHE had been the reason. not able to live without her, elijah had drawn up the plans for the chloe model. upon seeing the success, elijah had CONTINUED to make more androids for cyberlife, though he always kept one chloe model behind for his own PERSONAL use. perhaps it was time to come clean. “ and if i told you that YOU were the reason? that i created chloe because i couldn’t BARE to be alone? what then? ”

"speaking of: why seek me out at all? i thought josie would be the first person on your list of people to visit."

Floribeth was right to think that. Josie had been the one she wanted to see first, but her mind had overridden that decision. She didn't want to be rejected by the siphoner. She fully believed that would happen. "maybe past me would agree with that," she paused, "but i'd been trying to find MG actually." not a total lie since he was on her list.

His fingers close around the hand that holds his, accepting it and smiling with sincerity as he does. “You’d never know they were a controversial arrangement with how they are now. Have you met my parents yet? The past few days we’ve met and spoken to so many people and I can’t remember them all.”

Her grin turned into a smile as he accepted her touch, a sweet little hand hold. An innocent but intimate gesture for her. "I have met your father, the Prince Baelor, in a brief moment. My father was there by my side and seemed to steer the conversation," she shrugged. They were likely together in a different room to discuss final details of the ceremony. "I hope to meet your mother soon, and perhaps your brother too," she paused. Her lips curled into a smirk, "maybe then I can really compare the hair colors."

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"i'd... be honored to meet your dragon. though i'm not sure what that would entail?" she'd seen the dragons of the princes and princesses but never close enough for it to be considered an introduction. "i figured if i were to earn my sea legs the distance between king's landing and dragonstone would be a safe distance to learn."

"i traveled by sea and we shall travel to driftmark before taking another ship to dragonstone. my dragon is resting there right now," she added. there had been a place for moondancer to rest on driftmark, sure. however, her last stay on the island had a couple days. she'd thought to return to dragonstone before the call to king's landing had come. "the meeting would entail my dragon being called from the caves and then i would hope to have the two of us approach. moondancer might seem intimidating at first, but she can be friendly. i promise."