LIKE ICARUS LOVED THE SUN
![[Image: reich_sticker_by_aimless_claims_dbf6kcy_...bf9ubj.png]](http://orig12.deviantart.net/a5ae/f/2017/187/3/9/reich_sticker_by_aimless_claims_dbf6kcy_by_arrakis93-dbf9ubj.png) "Rhos?..." Came his baritone voice through the early dawn air, his slick body melting seamlessly from within the mist and shadow. Unless he was sleeping off a night of celebration, Reichenbach often greeted Denocte with a dawn walk - solitary, so that he could think clearly and without interruption. This interruption, however, was a welcome one. "What are you doing here?" His rough hewn face split into a pleased smile, his long lashed eyes bright with welcome and happiness (and guilt, guilt, guilt) as he looked his sister from head to toe. At first when he'd seen her, a flash of crimson hair through the trees, he'd thought it was Rhaegar. Had thought it was Rhaegar and stumbled, his heart tumbling from his chest to his throat and staying there as it beat incessantly - he hadn't thought what it would mean to have his brother returned to him, hadn't considered where his loyalties truly lay now. Family, always, would be the most important to him, but seeing Rhoswen.. his heart hurt with the guilt and the shame. He shoved that horror down to the darkest depths of himself, where it grumbled and settled with it's usual intonation of "I'll be back", as he brightened. He took her in - so regal and proud, a vision that had always turned heads in Denocte. She was that girl, to so many boys, a heart thief if there had ever been one. But if she had been beautiful in Denocte, living under the desert sun had turned her radiant. Reich watched her through knowing eyes - heartbreaker, stronger than me, beautiful as the rising sun, trouble. The words sang through his head swiftly, and he could not stop the mischievous grin that blossomed upon his open face - she'd always been stronger than him, a leader in her own right, but she'd also always been ready to cause trouble at his side. Silence hung between them for a moment before the new Sovereign of Night leapt forward and tucked his sister into a warm, smokey embrace. "Missed you Rhos.." @Rhoswen <3 lovelovelove |
