Hope Falls

“It is the worst choice we ever had to make. But we had to make it Aodhän. We couldn’t have - we couldn’t have let her feel pain for perhaps a week or more as she faded away. It - we would have been worse parents for doing that, than ending her life peacefully as she slept. We - we had to.” Isolde whispered, more justifying it for herself than anyone else.

"I know, I know. We were doing what was best for her, making the right choice." He swallowed, lifting his hand up to wipe his face dry. "Considering how- how dire things became, we only lost a handful to starvation. We done - you done well, Sol. Once again, you have proven how strong you are."

“Not something I could have done on my own…”

"Yes it is," Aodhän whispered, taking her face gently in his hands. "Do not take away from yourself. The praise for us surviving this belongs solely to you. You were magnificent."

“None of this I could’ve done without you. You tell me not to discredit myself but what about you?”

"I would be lying if I claimed my confidence didn't feel slightly knocked at the moment." Aodhän swallowed, brushing a thumb in a light circle against her face. "It isn't anything other than the exhaustion."

“We have survived much. We need a rest just as much as the one we are forcing on everyone else.”

"Should we go to bed?"

“Bed… and then think we should agree that when Kael is all okay, and the city is normal… we should take ourselves away for a while. To recoup.”

"We were well overdue a trip away, even before the past few months."

“Then we are agreed.”

"We are."

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A week later, Kael sat adjusting the sleeves of his shirt trying not to wince at how it brushed against the bark of his arms. Face still gaunt, skin still pale from the period of starvation, the swelling on his face all but gone, only the green - yellow tinted bruising staining his skin. "This being held in this room makes it feel formal," He spoke quietly, frowning at how large the meeting room felt with only three people within in, "More than just a family meeting. What are we here to discuss?"

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"So Ira's wings ended up getting all tortoise," Eden was laughing to Lucian in an Eastern tongue Lynette had began teaching her before they left, and that Liara had continued to teach her afterwards. Her accent much to be desired, words becoming easily mixed with others. "He was really happy about it at first, he was crying but then Devika said she would make him a bath of cows milk to get all the tort - tortoise- No, no - mud? All the mud off so it put him in a good mood again."

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