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Post by journeycat on Aug 15, 2011 4:52:56 GMT 10
Title: This Home We've Made Rating: G Word Count: 231 Summary: Even years later, Jon worries that Thayet misses Sarain.
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“Did you dream of better things than this,” he ventured to ask, reluctant to know the answer but needing to know nonetheless, “back in Sarain?”
She did not like speaking of her mother-country, but sometimes when she had that faraway look in her eyes and when her hand went to her tell-tale nose, Jon knew she would open up to him. His lovely wife, Thayet of the K’miri, princess of a land that she could never claim and queen of a people that did not always trust her. Was this what she hoped for as a child? Did he ruin her dreams of returning to Sarain, as he had Kally’s dreams (oh and how that had hurt him, when his daughter with sapphires for eyes had wanted nothing more than to serve her brother as a knight of the realm)?
“I never dared to dream at all,” Thayet said, and smiled. The lines in her face deepened with that movement, but there was no one more beautiful to him than she was. “I know you worry that I’m homesick, but how can I possibly be? This is my home, the one we created together, me and you.”
This is our home, Jon thought, as she reached across their bed to kissed him ever so sweetly, strong hands pressed on either side of his face, the one we created together.
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Post by wordy on Aug 15, 2011 7:39:04 GMT 10
Awwwww.
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Post by Rachy on Aug 15, 2011 8:40:42 GMT 10
This is beautiful
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Post by Katty on Aug 15, 2011 8:58:28 GMT 10
Lovely!! *melts*
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Post by journeycat on Aug 15, 2011 9:24:28 GMT 10
Thank you ladies so much! <3
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Post by Kypriotha on Aug 15, 2011 19:53:25 GMT 10
Awww how sweet
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Post by Lisa on Aug 17, 2011 6:58:01 GMT 10
Ah, I love them so much, and this is precisely why. Thank you!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2011 20:12:39 GMT 10
I can't even pick out what I like most. Jon's voice through it? The soft side that we rarely see?
This line: The lines in her face deepened with that movement, but there was no one more beautiful to him than she was. ?
The conclusion? (And Thayet's hands being mentioned as the strong ones.)
Like everyone else, I thought this was beautiful.
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Post by journeycat on Aug 21, 2011 8:23:46 GMT 10
Thank you all so much! ♥
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