<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/Y3n5ibZ.png)</div>Larissa smiled when she heard the answering call to the east. A sense of ease wrapped itself around her - and with Elaine already at her back and supporting her waist, Larissa could pretend that ease had been made manifest. It was the same elation she felt when her mother wrote back to say that she would be sending a detachment to assist, the same elation when she saw Captain Law and his men emerge from the forest. She had been worried that she wouldn't be able to hold her claim - but she would have the standing force she required.<br/><br/>Soon she would have the forces to win.<br/><br/>She spared a glance over the side of the tower to see what chaos, if any, she had caused in the camp below, but her attention was soon solely on her beloved. "And we'll win," she said. Turning around in Elaine's grasp, Larissa kissed her.<br/><br/>Their night was more comfort than revelry. She was in a doting mood, what could Larissa say? She treated Elaine to all the delights that her touch and mouth had to offer before they fell asleep, Larissa holding Elaine in her arms.