first love. joining

Versailles hadn't left her family by choice - everything that has led up to this point has been circumstance after circumstance that she's convinced her whole life has already been laid out, and she's simply following a path already written in the stars. Her mother, her protective mother, had been taken from her - and a brother had been given back in return. Family after family lost and regained, a cycle that turns and turns and she wonders whether it will keep on turning and if she's set to lose another one.

She doesn't want to lose Bast, her brother, relationship tentative but getting there. She doesn't want to lose Margaery, a sweetheart, close to a mother-figure if Versailles squints. She doesn't want to lose... anyone in the Ascendants, really. All of them have been family to her, one way or another, regardless of how much some have really gotten on her nerves as of late. She's not afraid to admit that she cares, but that's just who Versailles is.

She wanders over and squints at the newcomer from behind Gabriel, peering over his shoulder with molten-gold eyes burning lowly with curiosity. She doesn't speak, everything that needs to be spoken has already been said, anyway, so she just sits back and lets herself observe the interaction.

;; well my muse just eloped with my motivation wELP