He had started rising, wincing a touch, before the yearling king approached him instead and he returned to sitting. Very well Horus, Satriya already feels like home he had stayed up for the better part of the night after his talk with Khyan and Idalie, soaking in the scents and clinging to them as memories long forgotten tried to surface. Feasts, laughter, worship. Things that didn't belong to him anymore that twisted his heart strings.

Your healers are very skilled, the princess hasn't complained once She's been sleeping, for the most part, but already her eyes were brighter when she wasn't. He himself clearly had no complaints, as little as he liked to dull his pain he had accepted another poppyseed at breakfast.

There was of course, the question of how long they would remain.