The King's Eight by Argon Masters

Author:Argon Masters
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tablo Publishing

Chapter 17

The next morning dawned quieter at least. Or at least, there were no sounds of a crowd in the courtyard. It seemed like a really low bar for what Titus should consider a good way to start the morning but he just took it for the blessing it was. He’d woke up with Leaf tucked to his chest, happily burrowed against him, and Sedel against his back. Ochei had been through at some point he remembered, but she mainly had kissed their foreheads and told Titus she’d braid his hair the next day, to which he’d happily agreed.

Leaf’s hood had slipped down at some point, and Sedel’s nose was tucked next to his ear, and it was very easy to lie there and almost half-sleep, not quite awake but awake enough to move a hand and slowly comb through Leaf’s hair with his fingers, some part of him marveling at the silky-softness of it. His hair isn’t wool-like but it’s definitely coarse even on the best days, no matter how much he tried to condition it into perfect then-fashion locks when he was younger.

He’s still young. He feels old, he feels ancient.

He has to wonder how much of that is him, and how much is that is Arsen, who seemed to count time in the explosion of stars, not in the rotations around one.

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