Kali flinched at her friend’s words, her brown eyes immediately softening as she saw the tears form in the pits of Lanthra’s eyes. Her fingers felt numb in the Queen’s own and her mouth hung agape, the traveler stricken dumb.  Was this how much pain she had caused her friend – the woman she loved so much?  She had never intended for things to happen like they did… and while her reasons for having left were not as selfish as they seemed to Lanthra Kali could not find the strength to voice them, or anything.<br/><br/>Silence hung heavy, pregnant between the two in the darkness. Kali’s eyes burned and tears welled up in the pits of her eyes but she held them back, her lower lip quivering before she looked away from her friend and felt herself loose the internal struggle. Her chest heaved and she sobbed. Tears run down her cheeks in salty, glistening streams and the familiar pang of a wounded heart settles deep in her chest.<b><i> “ Lanthra… you know I didn’t leave on a whim..”<br/>
</i></b><br/>Kali’s golden eyes blink away the tears before she raises her head, her own face streaked from tears of shame.<b><i> “ I want to be in your life. I always have. I want to see your beautiful daughters and I want so badly to be at your side. I regret doing what I did but I had to. Can’t you trust that?”</i></b>She lets go of her friends hand only to slide out of her chair and if Lanthra let her, wrap her arms around the other woman in a close embrace. She buries her nose in the woman’s neck if possible, tears still falling .<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>