Comms and Other Long FE Oneshots

Fond Farewells and Final Revelations

*Commissioned by the mighty Baneofloslorien on Deviantart. More smol Shigure, you all know what universe this is set in by this point.*

"Ah, there it is." Lilith peered under the desk, a flash of white light alone presaging the transition from a tiny dragon to a young woman in a modest navy blue maid's outfit. She reached underneath, easily pulling out the paper snowflake, and turned to Shigure with laughter in her pale golden eyes. "You're getting better at hiding these, young one."

"You're getting better at finding them, I need to be better at hiding them," Shigure replied, easily crossing the tower floor to crouch down next to her. He then took of hold of her braided hair, where the navy blue gave way to red, and studied it in fascination. Lilith chuckled softly at his boyish delight, a nostalgic gleam in her eyes. "You can reach just about everything now, and you couldn't before. How come you never turned human when I was younger?" Lilith stilled a bit, averting her gaze. Shigure frowned slightly. "You always revert to dragon form whenever somebody that isn't from the old army is watching, too," he pressed.

"Well... there's an explanation," she replied slowly. "I don't know if it would be all right for me to be the one to tell you, though. It involves quite a few people."

Shigure's frown deepened at that, but before he could press further, he heard his father clear his throat. "I don't mind, and I doubt that the others would mind either," Corrin remarked from his position of leaning on the wall near the door. Shigure hadn't even heard him come in, something that was rare, but then, his father was generally quieter when he was tired.

Him being tired was a given what with two new squishy babies in the palace and a gala to celebrate their birth coming up. The twins had been a big surprise, Father had blurted out a comment about this being why Mother had gotten so big, and Shigure, sensing the potential, had hurriedly asked about them having different hair colors. Kana had inherited their father's white hair- was the spitting image of him, really, while Kamui had the pale blue hair that Mother and Shigure shared. Azura had apparently sensed Corrin's near-miss as well, though, so he had still gotten glared at.

Shigure had been spending a lot of time in this tower with Lilith the past couple weeks while his parents were both running about, but at least Mother wasn't that grumpy all of the time anymore, and the twins were cute- if extremely loud and still rather squishy-looking. Mother assured him that he'd been that squishy once and that Kana and Kamui would grow out of it, and Father had confirmed it, but Shigure wasn't entirely certain. "Then I don't mind it being explained." Lilith dipped his head to him. "But I think you'd better be the one to do it. You've always been better at those sorts of things than I am."

"Of course." Corrin uncrossed his arms, pushing himself off of the wall and coming over to sit cross-legged next to Shigure. "Got a brand-new story for you, kiddo."

"Really?" Shigure asked excitedly, leaning away from Lilith and towards his father. Lilith gave a small smile, rising to put the last snowflake back in its proper place upon the collage which had been disassembled and then reassembled during their scavenger hunt.

"Really really. I didn't know it myself until about a week before the twins' birth." Corrin sighed, setting his hands down on the ground behind him and leaning back on them. "Alright, so you're going to be hearing a lot about Odin, Selena and Laslow, here. They finally opened their mouths about where they came from about three weeks ago in this very tower."

Shigure's eyes grew round as saucers, and his father grinned. "Tell me the story," the boy demanded, and Corrin gave a slight nod before starting in. "So on that day, I left you with your mother and the twins and headed up to the tower where Odin and Selena had asked to meet me..."