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Yuè · 5 hours ago

for the little dragons ♥

So, this was motherhood in its plainest form.

When the secrecy was stripped away, and their little bodies were not so delicate and feeble, and the pomp of the wedding was nothing more than faded petals strewn upon the floor –

There were seven babes that looked at her like she was their entire world.

It was a type of satisfaction that made everything else fade into the background. The wet-nurses were gone, and the Empress barely noticed who visited (now that the royal family had moved from their clandestine whelping den, back into the palace).

A nursery had been prepared; a beautiful expanse of wooden toys and soft hides. It only hurt a little bit to watch them cavort together and remember that, sooner rather than later, they would be removed from her care. She would return to her job, which was not as mother – she was an Empress.

Women such as she parented from a distance, as tradition dictated. They would be raised as imperial princes and princesses should be, with tutors and household managers and adoring governesses galore. But for now, they were hers.

While they were, she would impart as much as she could.

Come, little dragons! the silvery mother called to her children; those that were awake or not otherwise indisposed. Since their formal presentation to the court in front of all of Mythris, they had discarded their milk names in favor of their true monikers, but she still adored the not-so-subtle reminder of their nobility and lineage.

They were her dragons, and they would begin to see this jungle – their illustrious and fortuitous Tianlong – through her own eyes.

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