[IC] Princess-Champions of Hyperborea

[Thanqol]

Princess Adila is happy. Everything is going to be okay!

There's no more worrying - no more moping, no more secrets, no more bad dreams or brooding or embarrassment. Princess Eska understands what her limits are and loves her anyway. It doesn't matter if she's stupid! It doesn't matter if she's clumsy! Princess Eska will do all the things that she can't do, and she'll do all the things that Princess Eska can't do. She can just rely on her best friend, and isn't that wonderful? What a good team they make - and she can't wait until they save Princess Dandy and she can join them! The three of them together! Just think!

She swishes through the halls in her ruffly black maid dress, balancing the tea tray on the tip of her nose. Black coffee for Eska, milk and honey tea for Dandy, hot water with baking soda for Azora. She is glad that she can just buy the biscuits now. She'd done a lot of baking experiments in Axonia to take her mind off things - well, you know, not that her mind should be on anything because Eska had told her not to use it because she'd just hurt herself. But. You know. Sometimes she was a disappointment, still, but Eska always forgave her in the end. And she wondered why she couldn't see her light any more. Hadn't that been important?

The Illuminan lights encourage their bearers to follow their hearts, and hearts are perilous things. Trust them not. Trust only your fists and your reason.

She remembered coming into the room with her tea tray. Eska had been busy so she'd just set her cup down by her desk, and then taken off Princess Dandy's gag so she could drink. But she'd talked to her instead and... things got hazy... and... Eska was yelling...

And then she woke up in Eska's lap and her heart melted because everything was okay after all!

She is home. She is surrounded by her friends, wonderful friends who are so patient with her no matter how many times she forgets her orders and gives herself a terrible headache from thinking too hard. She gets to be called darling, and that's always a thrill, and she wonders if Princess Dandy will use that word too when Eska finally lets her talk again. It's all everything she ever wanted and she didn't even have to waste time figuring out what she wanted because Eska thought of all that too!

+Anything you say,+ thought Princess Adila, nuzzling Eska affectionately. Absolutely nothing could ruin this day.