Evie
Her smiling agreement turns into a breathless, surprised laugh as he captures her ear in his teeth. "That's the sort of behavior that got us here," she teases with flimsy reprimand, eyes glittering as she plucks at his shirt as he departs as if tempted to bring him back into her orbit to continue with such things. Not as if they have any reason to worry now, right?
He does not linger on the sour note of the fate of her friendships, the discord of an ill-struck key on a piano that nevertheless is swallowed by the grander beauty of the rest of the song. It's something she'd like to change, and perhaps she will - pregnancy is a great way to get people talking. She remembers all the strangers begging to touch her belly when she was pregnant with Erebos. Certainly no shortage of conversation starters there.
"It's why we made sure this house was so big from the start," she agrees with a grin. Gods, will she ever be able to stop? She'd always expected Amalia to be the motherly one of the two of them when they were kids, but now look at her; the Evergreen, happier as a mother than she's ever been in any other role in life. "We can start early, before I get as big as a whale again." An exaggeration thankfully, she'd had a blessedly easy pregnancy with Erebos, but soon enough she'd be restricted in terms of carrying certain weights or doing lengthy work. Might as well get an early start, or she'd go out of her mind simply being forced to watch while Deimos did all the fun decorating and nesting.
He does not linger on the sour note of the fate of her friendships, the discord of an ill-struck key on a piano that nevertheless is swallowed by the grander beauty of the rest of the song. It's something she'd like to change, and perhaps she will - pregnancy is a great way to get people talking. She remembers all the strangers begging to touch her belly when she was pregnant with Erebos. Certainly no shortage of conversation starters there.
"It's why we made sure this house was so big from the start," she agrees with a grin. Gods, will she ever be able to stop? She'd always expected Amalia to be the motherly one of the two of them when they were kids, but now look at her; the Evergreen, happier as a mother than she's ever been in any other role in life. "We can start early, before I get as big as a whale again." An exaggeration thankfully, she'd had a blessedly easy pregnancy with Erebos, but soon enough she'd be restricted in terms of carrying certain weights or doing lengthy work. Might as well get an early start, or she'd go out of her mind simply being forced to watch while Deimos did all the fun decorating and nesting.
I see you when you chase the dreams inside your head
and when you laugh and love until the bitter end
and when you laugh and love until the bitter end
