Their marriage was political. That was it. Nothing more than that. It was forged to form an alliance between two factions.
Alistair The Lightning Revenant and Ashe The Queen of Freljord never showed any kind of affection towards each other.
At first. This was fine for Alistair. Of course, he would do anything to protect his people. To save them from further harm. That's why he married. The forces of their two factions combined could be an unstoppable force.
But after a few months of bickering at each other, and simply acting as if they were never married, the feeling of absence tore away at him exponentially. He had to tell her soon.
He had always loved Ashe. He just couldn't bring himself to say that to her. Her eyes were... stimulating.. to say the least. She had a nice, supple form that most men would fight over to be with.
Her soft, silvery hair that glowed in the moonlight captivated him so much that he almost died because he didn't notice a blatantly
obvious tripwire that Ashe had avoided moments before. If she hadn't pulled him out of the collapsing archway on top of them, he would have died, right there.
"You stupid idiot!" shouted Ashe.
"What were you thinking?! You could have died!" a mixture of anger, worry and, surprisingly, amusement was evident in her eyes.
"I... I.. I'm sorry." was all that Alistair managed to say. The lightning that crackled on the edge of his cloak seemed to die down, as if to apologize to Ashe.
"What were you so distracted by? That tripwire was hilariously obvious, I'm surprised you couldn't see it with your lightning blue eyes." Ashe mused.
The atmosphere of anger and worry was slowly fading away. Happy banter took it's place.
She admired those eyes of his. They were always crackling with electricity. He would normally see threats a mile away, which is why she was so surprised when he didn't see that tripwire.
She was absolutely mesmerized by them. They were in a brilliant shade of blue. Of course it had to be blue. Her favorite color.
Alistair smirked and chuckled. He loved it when she noted his eyes. It was a feature of his that he was certainly proud of. It could stare anything and anyone down, and it never misses a detail.
"I was kinda.. uh... looking at your hair. It's so beautiful..." He confessed.
"Oh!" Ashe was pleasantly surprised. He had never said anything like that before.
They never really shared compliments before. They were friends, they got along, but there was never a hint of romance. It was incredibly unusual, even for a political marriage.
"Uh.. Th- Thanks! I.. Uh.. I appreciate that." Ashe was trying her best to hide her blush, but it wouldn't let up. Her cheeks became red almost immediately.
A feeling that she thought she would never had towards Alistair started to form. Her heart lept in her chest. Uh oh.
Her thoughts were interrupted by Alistair, who started to laugh again. Ashe always liked his laugh. It was soft, and it wasn't too intense like how most men laugh.
"Come on. Let's keep going." Alistair patted Ashe on the head, while putting her hood back on. She didn't notice it fall off.
There it was again! That feeling... her heart beat furiously against her ribcage when he had touched her. 'No...' she thought to herself. 'Why now? Why does it have to be so sudden? Wh-'
She was interrupted again by Alistair, who shouted back at her.
"You know, you should really get moving! The sun's rising soon, and I suspect you wouldn't want to be in the heat."
And he was right. She hated the heat. Naturally. She was the Frost Archer, of course she's going to hate the polar opposite.
He was always right. How does he get things right all the time. Is it because of his "power"? Is it because of those eyes? "Eyes that never miss a detail..." those blue eyes... Blue always has something to do with lightning. Power. He had told her before, where he got the power to manipulate lightning.
"I was 14. It was late at night. I was bored, so I decided to go strolling in the woods. I got to this... clearing of some sorts. I noticed a white-blue crystal stuck inside a stone. I was wondering why nobody ever took it,
because the clearing was a common route towards my home, my kingdom. So, I decided to take it. It was so pretty. It glowed this pure, sky-blue light that seemed to... Shine power from it. When I touched it, I heard thunder.
Then, an incredible bolt of lightning blasted from the sky and hit me squarely on the chest. I fainted. When I woke up, the crystal wasn't glowing blue anymore. I'm not even sure it was a crystal anymore. It had turned dark,
similar to obsidian, then it crumbled in my hands. As I got up, I noticed my hands were... Glowing. I panicked, and then accidentally hit myself in the face with a bolt of lightning."
Ashe fell forwards laughing when she heard that part.
He was incredibly interesting. They just got married 2 months ago, and they were still getting to know each other.
She didn't look forward to the marriage. She thought it was a waste of time.
But now, she started to think she was wrong.