#[ both two perfectly viable options. so it's really what you'd prefer-- the more 'new to this' mary or pregnant mary. both are beautiful. ]

[khruseosold]

Long overdue starter // @loialte​ (Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots)

Tutors, advisers, ears grew weary of these repeated speeches of responsibility, expectations and a Dauphin’s inevitable succession. His attentions never truly knew falter however, they had merely been inhabited with a true-felt wish for differing focus— one such as the image before him now; had their Maker ever filled another canvas with a subject as beautiful as she? Mary Stuart, the recipient of a gaze as intense of blues as his own, the recipient of all adoration and devotion of his heart, and his ears were ever happier to be the recipients of her voice opposed to all other, the only one which spoke in tones as melodious and bright, he’d never tire.

The approached sensation of a cold material to his hands, accompanied by some rushed words from her, gathered his focus and brightened a countenance, bemusement and delight filling every inch amidst his features. It was a demeanour he’d known well, one oft a consequence of one of his mother’s visits, “Mary. Mary,—” Though he knew she was hardly genuinely distraught; a bare lean forward, intrinsic as much per usual, permitted his lips to briefly seek out her own in momentary silencing (and in truthful delight of his reuniting with her). Upon his growing separation, a nose brushed the tip of her, before further distancing left none more than the tip of an index at her chin, “That’s better.” And the rebirth of his earlier delight, “Now, what has my mother been up to, this time?”