Anara stopped and giggled a little, pulling her down onto the bed with her in a heap and tickling her. ”Four can play this game.” Anara told a surprised Kes who playfully defended herself. They ended up wrestling too, and she decided to follow Tresit’s example and let her wife win in the end.

So it was that, both of them breathing hard, Anara’s nearly sightless eyes were soon looking down on her, Kes’s wrists pinned to the bed. Both of them were smiling and Kes felt a wave of heat under her skin when her eyes trailed to her wife’s chest. She swallowed. ”Um, we… should probably have breakfast now, don’t you think?” She ventured. –Unless you can’t hold yourself back…?– She teased over their mental link.

Anara smiled, her eyes, nearly sightless though they were, easily conveying that she was strongly tempted to take Kes up on her implied challenge. Still, Kes knew her wife wasn’t about to miss a breakfast with their children, and, truth told, Kes didn’t want to miss that either, especially after what had happened yesterday… It felt, and she could easily tell through their link that it felt this way to Anara too, like, after yesterday, they needed to be there for Tresit and Lanam even more. So Anara let her go, helping her up. –It’s better you have some time to let the anticipation build up while we eat, that way you’ll have energy from the food, and heat from the waiting.– She told her softly as she moved to kiss her.

Kes let herself be kissed and had to admit that she was fairly burning inside from it. When the kiss ended, she swallowed and felt hot all over.

She and her wife helped each other get dressed together. While they did, Tresit offered to go and set things out for them, Lanam following after him and wanting to help him. Kes and Anara sat on their cot together, Kes holding her wife loosely around her waist from behind, and watched for the minute or two it took the children to set up the indoor picnic breakfast. Kes mused to herself that soon they’d be back with her people and have a house with a table to eat at, and plenty of food and water on that table.

She felt Anara’s thoughts caressing her own in a way they’d both learned how to do recently, their mental link becoming more and more second nature to them. Kes hummed a little at how nice it felt, the two of them getting up, hand in hand, to go have their meal together with their children.

The meal was very nice, and, happily, Lanam seemed to be getting back to her normal, cheerful, inquisitive self, asking more questions about where they were going to live. Seemingly, she’d latched on to the idea of going to live in a new place even more now, because she’d realized it would mean that her family would be safe and wouldn’t be taken from her anymore than it already had been.

After breakfast was over though, Anara asked Tresit to take his sister out to play for a while, while the temperature was still cool. Tresit was noticeably reluctant, meeting Kes’s eyes in a way that she could tell was meant to say that he wouldn’t wait forever to keep his word and go back for his brother. Kes nodded to him in resignation. That seemed to satisfy him and he led his sister outside by the hand to play games. Anara then lead Kes by the hand back to their cot to do something else entirely, the anticipation of which was already putting Kes in a much improved state of mind… and also helping her not to think so much about what the day ahead might hold.

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to be continued