After the Choice, before the Queen

by a-dreamer-in-black

I have not yet read Trickster's Queen (im 35 on the waiting list...35!) but this is what i would LIKE to happen between Aly and Nawat, me being a hopeless romantic, i can't help it!

2. The Beginning part 2

(Last paragraph of chapter 1)- Nawat slowly rose off Aly and started to leave. She grabbed his arm and gave him another kiss. Then they strolled out of the room, arm in arm, holding hands. She didn't care who saw.

As the day of work began, though her status was lifted, she was no longer a slave, she still needed to scope out the area of whish was home now. Since she was not a slave, she could ride on horseback and make maps that way. The crows followed her, of course, they had grown quite fond of her.

She rode throughout the countryside, mapping and seeing what needed improvement, but her mind was not on protecting the kids, or the family, but instead they were on the lovely crow-man, Nawat. Why did she feel this way about him? What was she supposed to do? When she finally rode back up to the palace, she saw him, working on his arrows, sweating in the sun. She suddenly got the urge to get off her horse and kiss him. She involuntarily restrained herself, they would be spending all night together, she could do whatever she wanted then. But it wouldn't come fast enough.

Dinner that night was long and quiet, Aly was thinking of a way to sneak out of the castle to see Nawat, and the rest of the family was contemplation what had happened the night before, when they found out they were housing a noble from Tortal. When it finally ended, she had a plan.

Aly stood before Nawat's window, and gently knocked on it. She heard him stir inside, and slowly make his way to the window. When he opened it, he gave her a slow smile, and climbed out. Hand in hand, they walked up to her room, in the palace.

When they arrived, her bed was turned down, and a bath was drawn for her. Instead she quickly changes and let Nawat do the same. Then they sat on her bed once again, and gingerly began to kiss. Once again, they laid on her bed, him on top of her, kissing her down her neck and up again, finally finding their way back to her lips. She smiled as she kissed him, enjoying every moment of it, but she knew this night could go no further than kissing.