Prompt 4: Aching
His head was aching. His shoulders were aching.
Hell, everything in his body was aching.
But he was too proud to admit it.
He was the first prince of the Kou-Empire after all.
Kouen walked through the garden. It was way past midnight and he was beyond tired.
But the red head wasn't finished with his work. There were still some scrolls to be read, still some contracts to be signed, still some tactics to be thought over.
However, he needed a break-and he couldn't care less what the others said. He was a human, too. Well, at least most of the time.
He soon arrived in his chamber and fell on his bed. Everything was hurting.
Kouen felt like every single muscle in his body was tense and aching.
The prince groaned.
In these moments he missed his mother more than he usually did-which was a lot.
She would always see how tense his muscles were, despite him trying his best to mask it. And dare he say, he was always good in masking emotions.
She would come over to him and stare at him, till he looked away. Then she would give him a back massage and would teach him some exercises to relax his muscles.
These exercises weren't exactly easy, but she would show them to him in perfect accuracy, and when he was able to do them the same perfect way, his aches were gone.
After laying just a moment or two on the bed, he decided to actually do some of these exercises. They always helped him as a kid, so why not now?
So, he practiced the things his mother taught him.
When he finished them, he laid down on his bed again, one of his arms draped over his eyes, no feelings apparent on his face, completely motionless.
His body wasn't hurting anymore.
But his heart had never ached this much since his mother's death.
