Ipomoea
I hope you are blessed
with a heart like a wildflower.
with a heart like a wildflower.
She beats him to the door, and Ipomoea realizes when he looks at her eyes that he is all too willing to follow her through her city. And he realizes he wants to know what kind of queen she is, because he hopes she is the kind who will walk beside her people and smile at them the way she is smiling, now, as she makes him promises and pleasantries.
He thinks it lucky then, that all of Denocte’s leaders have always inspired him so. He knows the people in the court of dreams and dreamers need people like Vale, and Reichenbach, and Isra, and he hopes Antiope, too, to show them how to be the stars lighting up the darkness.
"How am I to say no," he tells her, and is surprised by his own honesty. And still he follows her out past the heavy doors, and into the fresh air blowing in down the hallway.
He does not tell her that he already knows every bakery in the city (he has visited them all in turn, in the years he lived here.)
But as he follows after her with a heart that is remembering how to beat again, the look in his eyes is hoping for her to show him something new.
@Antiope
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