Day 7 of the Mini Christmas Giveaway! :D

Vaxus Trevelyan for @lateforerebor

this was a commission for trashwarden!!! tysm dude!!

Bloodlines

11. The Sea Glass Stairs

Felix fiddles with the collar of his tunic as he all but paces a divot into the tiled floor of his bedroom. He stops in front of the mirror even if he’s done it a dozen times already to check on his chosen attire for the evening. The sleeveless tunic reaches down to his thighs, sapphire in color with heavy, golden embroidery weaving and spiraling out along the center lines in intricate patterns, with loose trousers to match. It’s not his most formal attire by any stretch, and he thought of wearing something even more bedazzled at first, but he should have asked Fenera to elaborate on their destination before she disappeared to calm his jittery nerves.

“This is ridiculous,” he mutters to himself as he stops himself from smoothing back his hair for what must be the hundredth time. It’s only Fenera. They’ve both looked at each other drenched in sweat and covered in bruises before, hairy tousled and coming undone to stick out at odd ends. This isn’t the first time they’ve snuck from the palace either and he shouldn’t expect anything but the same - a night of fun and festivities, and likely flowing drinks if she has any say again.

But…it’s also Fenera. 

Things don’t seem to be the same as they once were. He’s not sure when it happened, or what is happening, but everything seems on the cusp of change now. When he thinks of her it’s not with a sigh and a roll of his eyes anymore but with a warmth that spreads through his chest, a feeling like the moment before you leap from the edge of a cliff into the waters below. For more than a month he has always been looking forward to his training. Now he looks forward to seeing her again. Somewhere, somewhere very far in the back of his mind now, lesson twenty-nine tries to shout and flail for his attention, but he doesn’t care. He…he…

Czytaj dalej

Second part of my gift for @trashwarden. Thank you again for letting me work on your precious Vax! <3

*SCREAMS*