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[Queen Sarah]

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Sarah leans over the sleeping form and lights the bedside candle. Shifting back she lays upon her side, watching her husband sleep. His chest rises and falls with each breath, casting a shadow over her body. Thinking back on this eventful night she lays her head in the bend of his shoulder.

He had wasted little time before contacting her after his arrival. The seemingly brief moment they had shared privately before the Regency meeting. Hurried words and caresses before they had to go about worldly matters only intensified the electric air that surrounded them.

Now running her slender hand down his side she remembers the markings on his back. Thinking that his body now manifests on its skin all of his pain, his learning and the journeys he has taken through life. Fear fills her heart as her husband slumbers beside her and her son sleeps in his cradle by the bed.

He had told her that he would step down in an instant in order to be with her and Naji. To give his every moment to her and to share a normal life. With bravery she has never known before she told him she couldn't take him from his faithful followers, eager students and the Loyalists of the Realm. Even when she had said the words her ears could not believe what they were hearing. Even after all that had happened at the meeting, the dissension that was voiced, the attack of the Drow and the saving of her by the Dark Order, then with the backing of the Loyalists for him to continue as Regent, Rufus commanding the meeting once again. Now after all this…her mind whirls around the possibility of having her husband to herself.

Getting onto her elbow Sarah looks down at his sleeping face, barely touching his skin her finger traces over his facial markings. Softly whispering, “I can wait for our time my love.”

“But I cannot,” Rufus says with a hint of mirth in his voice. His eyes flash open as he grabs her small frame close. Returning once again to an intimate space, charged with electicity they continue to share a night without followers, students or loyalists as only a husband and wife may share.