She laughs when Eddis comes to her despondent after her first fight with Sounis, gives sharp-tongued advice, listens to newlywed woes and waits for the return of her friend’s natural sun.
She does not speak of her wedding night when Eddis asks after her first argument with Gen, does not tell of the storm of tears and accusations, does not think of the blank rage on Gen’s face when she’d thrown at him the words how could you possibly love me?, the deadly silence that followed, the things she’d seen that lived behind his eyes then, the words that he’d poured out into her, passion and hate and love mingled into something akin to worship, something that had left her overwhelmed, trembling in his arms.
Instead, she smiles, and pats Eddis in what she hopes is a consoling fashion, and says, “You know Gen - I couldn’t possibly keep track of all the things he finds to disagree on,” and ignores Eddis’s searching look in return, too like her cousin’s for comfort.
But Never Doubt (Queen's Thief, Eddis & Attolia/Gen)
She does not speak of her wedding night when Eddis asks after her first argument with Gen, does not tell of the storm of tears and accusations, does not think of the blank rage on Gen’s face when she’d thrown at him the words how could you possibly love me?, the deadly silence that followed, the things she’d seen that lived behind his eyes then, the words that he’d poured out into her, passion and hate and love mingled into something akin to worship, something that had left her overwhelmed, trembling in his arms.
Instead, she smiles, and pats Eddis in what she hopes is a consoling fashion, and says, “You know Gen - I couldn’t possibly keep track of all the things he finds to disagree on,” and ignores Eddis’s searching look in return, too like her cousin’s for comfort.