"If you're the lord, what does that make me? The lady?"
The war is over and all seems to be going minimally well until everything comes crashing back down for Adhara to the point where she would trade her existence to fix everything that had gone wr...
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Helio sighed as he looked at Cassiopeia's sleeping face, in a few hours they would be in the Great Hall and Adhara would probably scold him for not telling her but he agreed with Deimos that bringing her was important.
Not just for the simple fact that she could help change the future, but because Adhara needed Cassiopeia to comfort her.
"Helio, are you awake already? Is it time to go?" she murmured, rubbing her eyes as she sat up. "Are you worried about Karu's reaction? She's strong, she'll be fine."
Ah, it really was hard to hide anything from Cassiopeia and he'd only been with her for a few hours.
Ai Cassiopeia Kisaragi had been given the gift of clairvoyance, she knew many things that would happen and his arrival did not catch her unaware and that was a fact that made Adhara feel unsure. Ever since she had learned of the gift Cassiopeia had been born with, even though the Cassiopeia she had spoken to had assured her of it, she couldn't help but think that perhaps she had only helped her to give herself the best possible future and that her actions had not been entirely honest.
"You know, from the first time I had a vision of Adhara I wanted to meet her," she admitted with a smile on her lips as she remembered, "her smile seemed to shine like the sun and she looked so happy with my little brother that I thought she would be the luckiest girl in the world, but then I started to have visions of how she suffered... Then I could see how she couldn't express her feelings, how she didn't make the attempt to get close to even her brother but stayed on the sidelines. I wanted to change that, I wanted to be able to see more visions of her being happy than anything else and I hope I succeeded."
"You did," Helio said, coming out of his surprise, he still couldn't get used to seeing a seven year old talk so maturely either, "even if Adhara doesn't show her feelings all the time we can see that she's happy."
Or well, maybe they wouldn't see her so happy in a few hours.
∞
"Stay a little longer..."
"Breakfast is almost over," Adhara remembered faking annoyance as she lay back down on the bed, "we've been here for a while."
"Five more minutes," Tom begged.
"I've been giving you 'five minutes' for two hours now," she replied with no response other than a hug. "Who knew you'd be so affectionate?" she sighed, giving in once again. "Last five minutes," she agreed, enjoying the body heat her boys were giving her.
∞
After much effort, Adhara managed to get the three of them out of bed and into the Great Hall, giving them both a kiss on the lips before going to her father and uncle.
"Are you staying with us?"
"Is there a problem with that?" she questioned as she sat down between the two of them and grabbed a cup of coffee from the table. "By the way, you seem to have had a nice night."
