#i would do anything for you

[raayllum]

When Rayla wakes, it's in an unfamiliar infirmary, panic setting in for just a moment before she sees the two towers flag in the soft dusk light, and relaxes. The new castle's infirmary, and a room she's been fortunate the past five years to not need to spend any time in, somehow.

And yet she's here, the memories coming back in a blur. Her Starscraper silk-wings giving out on her. The scream, the crash. Something hard hitting the back of her head. Something red on her fingers, her vision hazy.

Her vision is still hazy, head swimming as her jerks her gaze around the room.

"What—?"

"Easy." Lissa settles into the chair by her bedside, smoothing down a matron's apron.

It's strange to see her here—Soren's mother, Viren's wife—and stranger to be alone with her. The woman's only been in Katolis for six months, Lissa skittish and distant like a cat, speaking only to Ezran and Soren often times when she speaks at all.

The fact that Lissa always looks at Rayla with thinly veiled dislike doesn't help matters, but it's small enough to not be worth a fuss, and she looks at Callum the same way, so Rayla knows it's not because she's an elf. But more than the usual glint, Lissa's lips are pursed, her leaner face pinched, even as she nudges Rayla into a sitting position and helps her hold a glass of water poured from the pitcher on the bedside table.

Rayla has only taken a sip when Lissa says, rather flatly, "You shouldn't be alive, you know."

The woman's bedside manner could use some work, though, Rayla thinks, but who is she to judge?

She holds the cup with both hands, ignoring the statement in favour of the far more important question. "Where's Callum?"

He'd tried to catch her before she hit the ground, her fingers slipping through his. His wind spell had cushioned her fall, but not—or just—enough to—

"The king dragged him off an hour ago to rest. You've been out of it for a few days." Lissa wrinkled her nose. "Bled through the bandages and sheets when they brought you here."

Rayla curves one hand behind her head, searching till her fingers find the tightly bound gauze wrapped around the back and looped around one horn. "And you treated me?" Lissa may help out in the infirmary to be useful, but she's not a nurse.

"No. None of us did, at first."

The older woman rises, ringing one of the nearby bells that Rayla knows is connected to an intricate system for summoning servants, though she's never used it herself.

A few painstaking minutes of sipping water later, and the infirmary doors burst open.

"Rayla!"

She's barely turned her head before she sees Ez by the doors and Callum charging forward, almost barrelling a nurse over in his haste. He squeezes past her tray of medical utensils, not even dropping into the chair that Lissa vacates as he gathers Rayla up in his arms, his grip tight but still so gentle as to not aggravate anything.

"Oh thank the gods," he breathes, shoulders shaking under her hands as she clutches back at him. She can feel his heart pounding against hers in his chest. "You're okay."

"I'm—" she starts in joyful agreement, faltering when he draws back to look at her.

His white streak is bigger. So big the change is unmistakeable, even if she hadn't spent hours memorizing his face, the green of his eyes and softness of his hair between her fingers. Her stomach drops, fixated on the way it covers nearly the entire stretch of his bangs, now.

She goes to say something—a soft admonishment, maybe, a gentle reproach—but his eyes are still so big and wide and scared, his hands shaking as he waits for her judgement and brings her hand up to kiss her fingers. There's deep bags under his eyes from lack of sleep, a paler tinge to his skin that's sickly familiar.

She cups his cheek with her palm instead, as Ezran comes up behind him. "Are you okay?" she asks softly, his skin still warm and alive under her fingertips.

Callum sinks into the chair and her touch, covering her hand with his. "I'm fine now that you're here," he says, and she knows he means it.

He stays and sits with her even once Ezran has to return for meetings, telling her about what she's missed while she makes her way through lunch.

Two days later she's allowed to be discharged, primal magic and regular human medicine doing the rest. Callum holds her hand while Lissa walks them to the door.

Callum opens it for her, Lissa catching her wrist before she steps through.

The woman's voice is a whisper, clear and cold. "Be careful."

Lissa / Rayla

Alive

[raayllum]

This was some of the most insane shit to ever come of Callum's mouth, and that was saying something

[buckluvbot]

bucktommy fluffebruary day 13

@bucktommyfluffebruary

「 love declarations 」

i

have

fallen

in love

♡

[pinofdnp]

to get to this moment

[inter-st]

I Would Do Anything for You

I'll smile when you speak, remember all those times I was hoping for something, and shaking my head from all I had done... But you never left me.

I've fallen in love and it's better this time than I've ever known.

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

- Sarah J Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

[hirtenstar]

[ashwritesandyaps]

I'd choose you, in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds.

descendants 1 &3 // The Chaos of Stars - Kiersten White // Aaron O'hanlon - peachykeenpoet on Instagram// You're so last summer - Taking Back Sunday.

My first attempt at web weaving!! I'm kinda obsessed actually??

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Do you think Barack Obama knows about the "then perish" meme?

[thatartiststudios]

Love's my religion but he was my faith Something so sacred so hard to replace Fallin' for him was like fallin' from grace All wrapped in one he was so many sins Would have done anything, everything for him And if you ask me I would do it again No need to imagine 'Cause I know it's true They say, "All good boys go to heaven" But bad boys bring heaven to you It's automatic It's just what they do They say, "All good boys go to heaven" But bad boys bring heaven to you

Heaven - Julia Michaels/Callum

[yourlovelyspace]

And more, if that's possible 💝

[falloutboyfan18]

Patrick Stump after a recording session

[raayllum]

being high mage got in the way of callum comforting rayla one (1) time and then he was like "yeah i'm quitting"

[0ccams-chainsaw]

So obsessed with how Wilson moves his hands while talking, makes me giggle and want to squeeze him till he dies

[itslenagain]

Julien must be protected at all costs

[outofcontextfossil]

NANAMI NATION HOW ARE WE FEELING???????????