Re: Hannah & Jeremiah; Jester's Court
She leaned against the crook of his arm, there, against his elbow, where he'd slid it around here. He couldn't protect her, true, and she didn't think he had any powers, but she maybe thought the whole point was the feel of it, and it felt safe and nice, and she leaned as the carriage rocked. With his arm there, she turned her head and watched the world beneath them slip further and further away with each climbing inch of the carriage. Up and up, and like they were going straight to the sky. Hannah remembered the South Florida Fair coming every year, and she remembered because Amy had gone and loved it, and because it had been a staple of Amy's teen years, and this was a little like that. Like the nights where they slipped a bracelet on your wrist, Midnight Madness, and you could ride everything all night, and it was like flying.
She looked back at him, smiling at his assertion that this was their kingdom, but she didn't break the reverie of memories finding their ways to his lips. She considered and considered, and she considered and considered, and she finally tipped her head a little to the side in her curious bird way. "What didn't happen?" she asked of the ferris wheel in his past. Maybe she shouldn't ask, and she considered, but she thought truths belonged up here, high in the sky and above the shadowy citizens of their kingdom. "What did happen?"
When he said this felt right, she looked down again. She thought it felt good. Good and nice, safe and nice, and she squeezed his hand when it slid into hers again. "It is a good kingdom. I think our subjects our happy, and we probably dance every night in a ballroom, and we eat on silver plates." She glanced down once more, then back at him. "We should find our ballroom, and something silver to eat on." It would be like a scavenger hunt, finding something silver and some place to dance. She wasn't worried about losing him here, not in their kingdom, and the wild madness of running around like children felt appealing to the woman that had never, ever been a child.