Iluq had spent a little time in the sitting room with Onainat. Drinking and telling the woman a little more about herself. It'd been a long time since she'd had a female friend.. a long time. In Faustben she was always surrounded by soldiers and most of them were men, not to mention her only real friend there had been Ithacles. Before Faustben she'd had friends, but most of them were human and had long since passed, or she simply could not see them anymore. There was something about the older female dragon that Iluq liked, and it wasn't simply that she was Koe's daughter.
It was her spirit. It reminded her that she was free now too. That she could do what she liked again. That she could travel and maybe she'd start some collection.. some hoard since Onainat seemed to suprised and upset that Iluq didn't have one to begin with. Maybe she'd find Onainat a nice spoon to thank her for reminding her that she wasn't.. that she didn't have to be attached to one place. That she could have friends other than a Prince. That.. Koe did a lot of it. But somehow, even with such short a time knowing her, Iluq felt as if she'd never forget this Onainat.
Now if only someone would explain to her about.. everything else. Why Koe hadn't mentioned a daughter until recently.. not that she minded. It wasn't as if she told Koe every single person she'd ever.. She hadn't told him about kissing Ithacles. Or about Ithacles kissing her.
Or about the almost marriage.
She found that her dreams were filled with snow. A snowy mountainside. A snowy kingdom. But it seemed dark. It seemed cold in a way she did not like. And she normally liked cold things.
"Wake up, Wake up!"
She only had time to lift her head and open her eyes before he was leaving. She cleared the dust from her eyes and pulled herself out of bed swiftly. She was in her clothes and buttoning her shirt rapidly, a skill she acquired from the constant threat of war, just as she ran out of the room following Koe.
"What's wrong? Is the inn on fire?" She hoped it wasn't. If it was she was going to jump out of a window now. He knew how much she hated fire.