Home is where your heart beat softly lulls me to sleep. Home is in you.
~~~
(Elian)
Say what?
Elian blinked at the queen. Mother. She still hadn't properly gotten around to wrapping her head around that. It was as if she was in a mental shock, and when it was over, she knew she was going to break down like a car with centuries-old wheels. No way in hell was she going to survive it... but for now, she was feeling only numb. Like she had been kept in a freezer for so long.
"A what? Queen?" She finally whispered in a gasp and the queen chuckled merrily. From the first moment Elian met her she had seen a melancholy around her, and it radiated off of her in waves. But now she looked like a loud, party place. Her eyes shimmered in her happiness, and it filled Elian's heart. The mother she
