MOUSE

Written on October 29, 2021 (♏︎)

Author's Notes: Written for Whumptober 2021 for prompt No. 25: Hide & Seek (Escape, Flight, Hiding).

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Rafa was used to making herself small, to searching for some corner of Riovanes into which she might lie and live within the stones. Of all the pet names he used, she liked least when he spoke of them as his little mice. Malak might take it as an endearment; she understood it as a snare.

When she fled, Fovoham's open sky frightened her; the Yuguewood itself seemed a sanctuary. She imagined, if matter enough stood between here and the Grand Duke, if there were enough space was between their bodies, it might be as though they had never touched.

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