The trip home from the meadow was peaceful and sweet. They took their time, filling the space with hushed words and gentle caresses. Shatter was exactly where she needed to be. There had always been something missing for her. She came to Beqanna to find a new home. She joined the Falls to give herself purpose. She had followed a blood moon, danced with her demons, and come out stronger on the other side. But nothing compared to the hole that had been left when she met the man that had turned her world upside down.
When they had first met she was naive and romantic, certain that he was her one. Through it all, even though she had grown older and wiser, that hadn't changed. She watched him walk away time and again, listened as he told her he loved someone else, bore their child alone in the dark, and spiraled quickly to the darkest pits inside herself. Still she held out hope. How could anyone else possibly compare to the handsome and achingly sweet Tiberios? The man who set her heart aflame.
As they break through the foliage, she can't help but smile at his reaction. Tiberios seems a man renewed, and she is so happy that she was able to provide this for him. The waterfall itself is still weakened from all that it had been through in these last few years, but still radiated peace and power. The plants and animals were on their way to recovery as well. After the drought, most of the critters that her daughter had lovingly terrorized had disappeared, and were only now coming out of hiding.
Thinking of Tyrna was bittersweet for the silver queen, and she wondered how Tiberios would react when he realized how far their beautiful child had fallen. Tyrna was still their sweet little girl deep down, but something had changed her. Shatter would talk to him about it eventually, but right now they had some catching up to do.
"Welcome home, my love." She whispers softly in his ear as she presses a tender kiss upon his cheek.
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