She had been waiting for his return.
He had been wandering as of late, leaving the keep and stretching those long legs into the distance, becoming a sun limned speck upon the golden horizon. It was different without him around, lonely in a way that Eden had never felt before. She wasn't quite sure what that meant, but Bexley hadn't been around long enough to ask - the beautiful woman had been dancing in and out of her life with a frequency akin to blinks. A soft smile played upon blackened lips as he thought of the aurelian spitfire, those sharp eyes and sharper tongue catching everything and everyone in her snare. Eden missed her dearly - missed both of her beloved friends dearly - and wondered if she should pick up a hobby that was more productive than brooding over her companion's absences.
Yet, as the scent of Leviathan's sand scoured skin came drifting through the halls, all thoughts of loneliness and yearning vanished.
Glee surged within the girls' breast as she trotted merrily through the keep and finally into the presence of her adored brother in arms. The sweet smile that had toyed with the edges of her mouth had grown, splitting her face into a grin radiant enough to eclipse the very sun as she cried, "You're home!" The magnitude of her happiness at seeing her friend again was something that held a modicum of shock for the maiden - she had never felt such a surge of affection for another creature before, not even toward her mentors back at the monastery - but that was something to ponder at another time. For now, Levi was whole and home and probably starving.
Eden was about to say just that when she felt the warm brush of Leviathan's nose against her neck. Amber eyes widening in delighted surprise, the girl stepped forward to return the gesture, though the discrepancy in height ended with Eden pressing her ringed nose to the behemoth's scarred chest. Lingering there for a moment, the paladin reveled in the all encompassing sense of safety and warmth that enveloped her being any time her friend was near. Heaving a contented sigh, the girl moved back, beaming up at the horned stallion.
"I'm glad you're home, tumbleweed man. Where have you been?"
@Leviathan this was so sweet it almost gave me diabetes someone help
