〔❁〕Come back to mine,

Izumi · 4 hours ago

Sitting still proved to be more of a challenge for Izumi than she'd thought it'd be.

One minute, the empress was helping others sift herbs within the garden's, the next, she was finding a new morsel to hunt and add to their food caches. Everything except sitting the hell down as instructed. Yet could one really blame the woman for being this restless? The knowledge that she'd need to relax and take it easy for the next 2 and a half months was terrible. Izumi hated relaxing -- there was nothing to relax about, there was far too much to do around here!

Yet her body would humble her whenever her mind could not. Sorting through herbs made her unreasonably sleepy, unreasonably fast -- and the heaviness that began to concentrate in her belly slowed her down and made prey easier to spot her. At times the woman had no choice but to slow down, lest she be on the verge of passing out. If not for her, the cranebird reminded herself, for the wellbeing of her children.

So that morning, Izumi would slowly pace her way down from her chamber's and make her way towards the beach. Coming along the familiar blooms of fuchsia and pink that led her to a seaside flowerbed to rest her body against. Embarrassingly, a sigh of relief would escape her as she settled within its softness -- despite loathing the idea of needing to sit still not too long ago.

A softened smile came to her as a lilac gaze drifted from her stomach to the glimmering sea just ahead. Warmth in the knowledge that one day, she would get to show them this view as well. As well as the rest of the Dynasty's lands that they would one day inherit...

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