“We need to talk, Heliora,” he manages to murmur, far closer than he intended to the shell of her ear. Rougher than he meant, like he stands in her chamber all over again, on the precipice of falling into the invitation of her smiling mouth. “… Immediately.”

A gift for @nadas-dirthalen featuring a scene from their Magnae Accessio fic that had me screaming crying throwing up for days. Run and read it do not walk RUN