Foresight
by Trisana McGraw
Author's Note: Written for the livejournal community tammydrabbles, prompt 05: fast forward. Set in early WWRLAM, my first A/J piece.
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As they lie in their bedroll, her small body curled perfectly into his, he imagines that he can see their life together as clearly as the visions that he will receive as the Voice: Corus, and Tortall, united; Conté children with their eyes and Gifts glittering like blue and violent gemstones; this flame-haired beauty as the champion of his heart, champion of his bed, sitting on a throne beside him – his Queen.
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His arms aren't warm enough around her; with the cold that slides over her skin come fragmented visions of the future: a splintered country whose people would never follow a knight-queen; children born too soon, into inattention and resentment; constant turmoil of heart and house; she his enemy rather than his beloved – his Champion, but never his.