Forbidden (Fire Emblem Fates Leo X Dragon! Reader Story)

Forbidden Chapter Twelve

Chapter Twelve, let's do this~!

===================================================

"Leo... he's been gone all night..." Elise whimpered, her arms crossed over her chest in some sort of an attempt at a self hug, while Camilla sat next to her on Leo's bed, the older woman staring off to the side while one of her arms was wrapped tight around Elise's shoulders.

"Indeed..." Camilla whispered, sighing loudly as she suddenly stood up, bringing Elise's attention to her.

"The rope to the balcony..." Camilla muttered, crossing her arms as she made her way to the balcony, looking over the edge and down at the swaying rope. "It is true someone could've come and taken him... but I do not think that to be the case."

"You too?" Elise asked, hopping off of Leo's bed and walking over to stand next to her sister.

"If Leo had been taken, I am certain he would've put up a fight. Yet look at his room. Not a thing is disturbed, other than that keepchest in the corner... no, I do not believe that Leo was taken away against his will."

"So you think he left too... think he ran away... but what from, Camilla?"

Camilla was silent after that question, her arms crossed tightly as she stared off into the distance. After a while of leaving Elise in silence, she let out a small sigh, leaning forward to place her hands on the balcony railing, her fingernails digging into her palms.

"I have my suspicions. But I cannot even begin to fathom on if they're true or not. Perhaps he ran from the war... ran from the stress and pressure of it all. But I doubt that... no, Leo is far too headstrong for that."

"Then what could he have run from, Camilla? I'm..." Elise whined out, throwing her arms onto the balcony railing and sighing as she stared into the distance, an action that got Camilla to stare at her curiously. "... I'm not sure... I can't think of anything that Leo would run from... he's never been so desperate as to run from something before... right?"

Camilla smiled at her little sister, although a short one, before running her fingers through one of her sister's slightly unkempt pigtails. "Elise... my sweet baby sister. I know you've noticed as well."

Elise turned her head in confusion at her sister's words, her eyes widening slightly.

Camilla's eyes directed towards the distance once more, her smile falling. "You and I both know. I'm unaware if Xander knows, but... he ran from us. He ran from his family... we have been horribly broken since..." Camilla fell silent for a few moments. "... since Corrin left us. He ran from our broken state, though it has affected him in many ways as well. I've not been so blind to where I haven't noticed that. But..." Camilla sighed, leaning her elbows against the railing and resting her chin in her palm.

"Which of us he is running from, I am unsure."

What little sunlight there was in Nohr had breached the horizon, now high in the sky and signaling the middle of the day. The children had been waiting patiently for Leo's return after they had discovered his absence, with Xander having gone out after a couple of hours with Camilla to search for him, to no avail.

Something as dire as Leo disappearing couldn't be hidden from their Father. They had to tell him. They couldn't just keep this to themselves.

And that task, unfortunately, fell upon Xander's shoulders.

Xander closed his eyes as he stood in front of the giant doors that lead to the throne room, taking deep breaths as he clenched his fists tightly, trying not to shake with worry over his brother. It was one thing to tell your siblings you were off to go for a walk, but it was something else entirely for one to disappear entirely without so much as a word. Half of the day had passed away and there was still nothing.