gold is the hand you press to her hip
oh darling,
She expects the news to surprise him, it’s also why she’s kept it a secret for the most part. But she doesn’t expect it to anger him as much as it does – and she lets him pull her close, wings tightening as he holds her close and she nuzzles her head against his. “I haven’t told many about it. But Bastien made him a lantern last Festival of Lights for me and for him.” She says lightly, calmly, because it had happened years ago and she has learned to deal with it all. She doesn’t feel guilty, not anymore. Had things been different, likely the child would have lived, but that was neither here nor there. “I put it in the Artist’s Sanctuary, after.” There’s a hint of happiness that lingers in her voice at it, before it turns slightly sour again. “It’s also part of the reason I broke free from Zariah. Because she wanted to force me to marry and have Abandoned children, and I just… After all of that? I didn’t want to deal with that again.” And so she had chosen a path of no children, however difficult it was for her.you'd even bleed preciously
REXANNA
