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Lively sounds of a gathering drifted through the night air, but Helyne and Gale seemed oblivious to it all as they remained tucked away in their own little corner of the camp. The recently married couple were eager to see their old friends after months apart at the reunion party the Scribe of the Dead had arranged for them. However, the pair found it hard to tear themselves away from each other. Perhaps it had something to do with Helyne’s recent news she had shared with her husband that made it next to impossible for the two to part.
Helyne listened with a smile as the wizard reminisced about the time they shared on their adventure. How much their lives had changed since the months long ago when they had met. A warm feeling filled her heart as he confessed just how happy he was. And, by the gods, was she ever happy too.
A raucous laughter from the campfire caused them to pause their conversation, their attention momentarily drawn back to their companions. Gale turned his dark eyes back to her, a rueful look on his handsome face. “Tempting as it is to keep you all to myself, we’d be terrible company if we didn’t mingle for at least part of the evening.”
Helyne sighed at her husband’s words. She knew them to be true, and yet she wanted to be nowhere else but by his side. With her recent condition, she found her attachment to him even greater than it had ever been. “If I must,” she sighed deeply.
Gale only smiled at her. “Yes, my love, we must.”
Stepping forward, Helyne locked eyes with him in what had become a familiar dance between the two of them. As he approached, she closed her eyes to wait for his soft lips to meet hers. Seconds ticked by as she continued to wait for nothing to happen. Her brow furrowed as she realized the kiss she had been waiting for wasn’t coming. Opening her eyes, she found her husband smiling at her mischievously, still very much outside of her reach. “Have you been teasing me?”
Helyne’s eyes narrowed at him in a playful glare as Gale continued to smile at her. “I would never! I was only admiring my beautiful wife,” he replied, the lie obvious on his lips as he could not stop the chuckle which followed.
She continued to glare at him, though she was nowhere near angry. Both the cleric and the wizard had settled into a happy life together, and their loving teases only made their bond stronger. “You truly would tease your pregnant wife, Gale Dekarios? The woman who is carrying your child? Just wait until I tell your mothe…” She was cut off from her gentle teasing as he pulled her into a kiss.
As the kiss between them deepened, Helyne sighed happily. She had never thought she would be here, in the arms of the one she loved, her most beloved friends waiting to greet them. She knew as the little life continued to grow inside of her, that she had even more to look forward to.