My little Dragon Queen
How, after, Alfred would invariably appear as if summoned, holding the latest thick tome he’d been doing some ‘light reading’ with; and how, sandwiched affectionately between her two older brothers, she’d be lulled into a nap by the soothing sounds of Alfred’s voice, reading aloud his favorite passages for her.
Despite herself, Alcina feels her eyes sting.
She closes her eyes for a few seconds, until the burning recedes, and looks down at the book she’d brought out with her. And for the next hour, she succeeds, to some degree, of distracting herself from thoughts of home within the pages of the book.
She’s absorbed somewhere in the middle of the page when she hears a light panting and looks
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