Hey, starchild, are you listening?
Biting the inside of her cheek, the young woman let that sink in. The weight of the burdens Remi was willing to carry for the sake of his child. And her own father too - she didn't need to ask to know that Ronin was the same.
"Do you... resent Ludo, for it?" she asked. "Would it be easier on you - on dad - if we weren't..." Around? Conceived the way they were? Even Seren wasn't sure what she meant, only that asking set her chest to aching, soft and insistent. The very idea of being a burden on these men that she loved so much...
She was grateful for the change in pace, for the wry look and - was Remi blushing? It left her space to joke, to laugh, to breathe a little easier.
"You mean you are not going to give me the birds and bees talk here? Because that would have been the perfect segue into the Talk." Her look was very wide-eyed and innocent... for all of three heartbeats. Then she couldn't hold back the laughter anymore, spilling forth like refreshing water from a spring.
Leaning back, she sighed after a while. "Born from a dream..." Her expression turned a bit dreamy itself. "That's awfully romantic, for a deity that would use the same child as leverage. Ludo is a strange one, isn't it."
"Do you... resent Ludo, for it?" she asked. "Would it be easier on you - on dad - if we weren't..." Around? Conceived the way they were? Even Seren wasn't sure what she meant, only that asking set her chest to aching, soft and insistent. The very idea of being a burden on these men that she loved so much...
She was grateful for the change in pace, for the wry look and - was Remi blushing? It left her space to joke, to laugh, to breathe a little easier.
"You mean you are not going to give me the birds and bees talk here? Because that would have been the perfect segue into the Talk." Her look was very wide-eyed and innocent... for all of three heartbeats. Then she couldn't hold back the laughter anymore, spilling forth like refreshing water from a spring.
Leaning back, she sighed after a while. "Born from a dream..." Her expression turned a bit dreamy itself. "That's awfully romantic, for a deity that would use the same child as leverage. Ludo is a strange one, isn't it."
Seren
