#𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗛𝗜𝗣: // I can see you in my soul ( eliana mitchell )

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 ❝   you weren’t supposed to see any of this.   ❞

 between the amount of glitter,    decorative jewels,    and the somehow sparkling bows that @gaerlhoss​’ bedroom like a second carpet...     if anything,   maeve cannot entirely believe she wasn't beaten into room by a small army of eager magpies or pirates in search of treasure.    ❝   not to get in the way of an artiste and her latest project,   ❞    careful step is taken to avoid crushing anything with bare feet,    amusement barely hidden even as she falters to pick up stray teddy from where it rests between her and the desk originally intended to be a workplace for such projects.   ❝   but you do know it's a very sunny and pretty day out there,    right?   ❞

 in the end there is never any pressure for either of their girls to do anything because they 'should' or because such weather might come with expectation that the first thing they'd do is beg and plead to rush out into it.    ❝   not that such a thing has stopped rae from also being very busy reading about technological hoplology.   ❞    taking seat all the same,    attention moves to balancing bear upon her knee,    slender fingers moving little arm to wave across at child. 

                            if the project,    whatever it may be,    is important to ellie then it is important to her too.     there is certainly no need for maeve to understand the appeal of all that lays before them.    ❝   what are you working on then,    sparrow?    it's certainly very sparkly.   ❞

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❀     ||      my defences are down,   I’ve lost all resistance       ||       ©.   happy  (  almost  )  1 year cam&&maeve anniversary  @duefaith​  !​

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❀   ||   please don't let me go down, down   ||   feat.  @mcgnificat​

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 birdie rambles;    just a public psa that maeve and cam’s  (  @duefaith  )  daughter eliana not only rescued a kitten at five but decided to call it   magnificat   both because she’s a music nerd   &&   because like her parents,   she’s ridiculous.

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❀   ||   she’s made of more than your flesh  &&  blood,  she’s made from your very soul  ||  feat.  @mcgnificat​​

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@mcgnificat​   didn’t  send    🌻    for   an   aesthetic   for   our   muses  but   that’s   never   stopped   me   before.   (  © / ©  )

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🛋   for   your   character   to    curl   up   with    mine  

 it's rarer than it used to be,    the space left within home when cam is called back to firing line,   how somehow their home is too quiet    &&    their bed oddly big when it houses only her.   (   these days,    when night swallows their corner of the world,    when there is nothing but rain hitting the roof above her,    she struggles to think of anything but the moments in which she truly did believe he would never be beside her again.  )  

 absence,    too often,    screams louder than presence.   thumb continues light brushing of simple wedding band,    twisting it around slender finger even as gaze remains on ceiling above her.     he will be fine.   off world training is nothing unknown or new,    nothing worth the way heavy eyes offer no promise of rest long before the creaking down hallways promises that silence will only last so long.  

 as much as she may miss cam,    may worry,    on longer trips into the stars...     even without full knowledge,   it is a space that naturally fills with anxiety even for  @mcgnificat​ ’s  tiny heart.

               ❝   bad dreams,  sparrow?   ❞     duvet is held up without too much pause,  a warm greeting to bedroom door being pushed open.     ❝   come on,  before you catch a chill.   ❞

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❀   ||    insp.    ||   feat.  @duefaith​   &&   eliana mitchell 

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❝    why  do  you  put  up  with  me ?    ❞

 ❝    not funny, sparrow.   ❞    it is a rare firmness   -   how voice leaves no room for argument,    no true hint of usual humour.   their three girls are all maeve never knew to wishful:    as clever as they all are determined to make their marks upon unsuspecting world.   @mcgnificat​ with her music,    with the calling that has followed her since she was first able to clap tiny hands together to own rhythm.     raelle,     with her knowledge,     with her unique perspective on a world that will always be a second home.    (   nissa,    little nissa who is still finding a path for herself,    a little too smart to care so little about any rule she doesn’t agree with.   )    

 there will be plenty of trouble for them all as they grow up,    but the echo of her and cam’s own humour from their middle child’s lips cannot go without remark.    girl doesn’t mean it    -    maeve’s knowledge of that doing little to soothe the ache they bring to chest.    at her age,    maeve would have meant it fully,    with every little connotation they carry.

 their girls know their worth,    they’ve made certain of it.    ❝   keep comments like that up and I’m going to start looking for the receipt to send you back.   ❞      and,    if wrist flicks and watering flowers is paused to spray teenager,  she cannot be entirely blamed.