He put a clawed hand on Sophia’s shoulder. “I’ll leave you two be.” Sophia gave him a smile. “Thank you Seleukos.” She turned to Damokles watching as her tall body guard walked past. “Good morning.” Damokles moved closer to her he pulled her in to his arm giving her gently kiss. “You let me sleep in to day.” Sophia felt a naughty smile creep across her lips. “Well last night was very vigorous I thought you might have wanted to rest.” Damokles pulled her closer. “Oh really, well I would have preferred to wake up with you by my side.” Sophia breathed in running her hand up his arms. “I’m sorry I wanted to see how the city rebuild is going.”

Damokles laughed slightly. “You put your father to shame even when he was ruler he didn’t have this much energy.” Sophia leaned forward kissing his lips gently. “This is going to be our city soon, I want it to be a great city, I want Illyria to be loved by all. I want them to say that it is a beauty of Greece like Apollonia.” He smiled at her. “You have a great vision, and I think this city will be great because of you.” Sophia raised her eyebrow. “No I think it will be great because of us, you were the one who spent all those late nights with me planning this in a way that wouldn’t affect the people. It will be a symbol of us.”

Damokles gave her a gentle kiss before eyeing the scrolls in her hand. “New scrolls I see?” Sophia eased up the scrolls. “Its just Gabrielle’s latest scroll, you know me I like to collect her works be they her old works or her new ones.” Damokles felt his smile widen. “Anything interesting?” Sophia unrolled both scrolls. “The second scroll is sightings and rumours the last time they were sighted which was in Messene.” Damokles nodded as he moved to stand by her side. “Wasn’t Messene where the werewolf King Lycaon had a great battle two months ago?” Sophia nodded. “Yes it also says that after that they were seen in Apollonia they were there for two months.” She lowered her gaze feeling a sense of sadness wash over her. “Maybe a part of me thought that they visit us, it would have just been nice to see them both again see how there getting on.”

Damokles gently rubbed her back. “You shouldn’t dwell on it Sophia, they might just have needed a break, they do a hard job. It’s not easy to save people.” Sophia shook her head sadly. “I just wanted to see Gabrielle again, you know to see how she is, we left each other on such bad terms and I’ve always wanted to put it right, I just want us to be friends again.” Damokles looked at her for a long moment he knew that she’d never been able to put thing right fully between them. Xena and Gabrielle’s relationship was now very public and everyone knew about it. It wasn’t a secret anymore despite that for a few years it had been kept very quite and had remained rumour though they’d always known the truth and out of respect had kept it quite.

He smiled as a thought crossed his mind. “How’s about we pay them a visit Gabrielle lives in Potidaea its not far from here, we can take a trip as soon as the building is complete, how does that sound?” Sophia put a hand on his arm. “I’d like that a lot.” Damokles smiled pulling her close. “It’ll be our little vacation, just you and me and we’ll see our friends again and make things right.” Sophia gave him a gentle kiss. “Thank you Damokles this means a lot to me.” She paused meeting his light blue gaze. “I love you.” Damokles leaned forward smiling. “Love you to.” He felt a playful smile creep across his lips. “Now come back to bed for a while I missed you this morning.” Sophia smiled running her hand through his beard. “With pleasure.”

End of part 34

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