Kali’s almond shaped eyes lingered in Lanthra’s own as the woman, her queen and friend a sort of hopeful look lingering in their  golden-brown depths as her friend observed the gift that had all but kick started their romantic relationship so long ago.<br/>Her smile wavered and then fell slightly when the elven queen spoke, dipping her head before turning around and placing the mirror back on the vanity before facing Lanthra once more. When she looked back at the woman it was clear as day on her beautiful face, the words though they were a gentle reminder, hurt. Still, Kali did her best to keep her smile from shrinking even more and forced it to widen a bit before speaking up.<i><b>“ Seven hundred and seventy-six years that I never stopped thinking of you.” <br/>
</b></i><br/>The lean bodied woman’s smile grows a little more genuine after she speaks, standing up taller as Lanthra walked back towards her. Without even thinking her eyes trailed down the queen’s frame from her graceful neck to her softer middle . Time had certainly made Lanthra a different creature , a beautiful and soft woman dressed in a gown made of glittering diamonds and fine cloth but when Kali met those eyes again she only saw the elf she’d parted from so long ago before her coronation.<br/><br/>Her musings on the past were interrupted when Lanthra asked her to sit down for dinner and she bashfully nodded her head, clearing her throat. As Lanthra’s eyes trailed along her fresh scars and lifted a soft hand to nearly caress her.<i><b> “ I’ve not broken a promise to you yet. I do not think I’ll start now.” </b></i><br/><br/>Her eyes linger on the hand that nearly met the angled plane of her cheek before she reaches out gently and takes the queen by the wrist. Kali had the hands of a woman who’d worked her whole life and though her hands had been oiled and buttered as the rest of her the pads of her digits were still rough against Lanthra’s skin as her thumb swept across the underside of her friend’s wrist. The small, doting motion goes on for a moment longer before Kali raises the hand  and brings it to the right side of her head and cants her head ever so slightly, letting her injured ear rest against the woman’s palm.  With her head cradled in the woman's palm Kali lets out a sigh.<br/><br/>Afterward she lets go and looks back up to Lanthra, an almost bashful look crossing her face.<i><b>“ You’re a queen but in these chambers you’re Lanthra to me.”<br/>
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