#���.* LUMINUS ( seliph )

[sunsinger]

@fillespreferees​

( “ what if i never see you again? ” ) Her son gives voice to her own fears. What will happen when their service to Askr has ended? Seliph has a kingdom to return to and people who need him. And she...she does not know if there even is somewhere for her to return.

But a smile remains on her face. She's smiled through her pain for him before when Sigurd left them behind in Augusti with Shannan and she will smile for him now. He should not need to see the turmoil inside her heart. She is his mother and she must be strong for him.

Deirdre reaches for her first born and pulls him in close. "Then we shall just have to make the very most of this time we have been given." One hand gently combs through the soft waves of his hair and she kisses his cheek. "I have missed so much. Will you tell me everything? Let me feel as though I have been a part of your life all along."

∘₊✧── she is ethereal, his mother. he had seen it in his dreams before, glimpsed a suggestion at what she may have looked like, but to actually see the woman that he had heard so much about...

there is a comfort in her arms that suddenly makes him feel incomprehensibly small -- makes the world as a whole vanish, fade further and further away until there is nothing left to it but her loving warmth.

“of course,” his voice is quiet, careful not to disrupt the moment for fear of it truly having been nothing more than another dream. seliph smiles at the affection, turning his face just so slightly away in that manner of a shy child. for he may be a king -- the proclaimed scion of light -- but here and now he is allowed what war had denied him the right to be.

a son. 

“my entire life you have guided me from afar,” his hands reach for one of hers, cupping it gently as though the most precious thing his own have ever touched, “thank you, mother.”