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Alaine Winters · 06-26-2011, 10:17 PM

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Things seemed to be settling down in the life of Alaine Winters.

For so long, it seemed, normalcy was a thing to be strived towards - An intangible desire for complacency, that lingered just out of reach. Always it seemed the world had other plans in store for the lithe woman; She was a mother again now, creator of two wrong pups and lover to one of the most powerful men in this land. Yet, normalcy; It came frequently these days, filling her with dread. For she had sought it so long that the Winters woman had forgotten how to savor it, and when it came she found herself dreaming up terrible ways in which it might be shattered and pulled away from her once more.

For now, there was nothing to be done about it. Her job demanded attention as always, and with the wet months on the doorstep, it was important to begin drying and powdering her old herb stocks and compiling new ones for the coming Autumn. While she had dallied in her kitchen for hours, the work was dreary and mindless, and the Apothecary sought a brief respite in the darkness of her room. She napped without dreaming, and the blackness behind her eyelids was soothing, but empty.

She woke suddenly to the sound of the gate. As was always her initial reaction, Alaine glanced about the room for her children, and suffered a moment of panic when they were not to be found. However, she quickly remembered the reasons for their absence - Elvira, the spiteful creature she was fast becoming, had stormed off in a tantrum earlier that day and would undoubtedly be sulking somewhere about the hotel. Elijah, her beloved wrongling prince, would be at the stables with Nana. He seemed to spend the majority of his time with the fat broodmare, and it gave the busy mother a relief to know that her son was being watched over.

Stretching loosely and rubbing the weariness from her eyes, Alaine opened the door and stepped into the hallway, almost bumping in to the two little girls who had reached the top of the stairs. "Oh!" Came the sound of surprise as emerald eyes glanced at the two unfamiliar children. They lifted then, to meet the eyes of the woman behind them - In spite of her changes in physical appearance, Alaine recognized her dear friend instantly. For a moment, her face froze; Was she dreaming still? Then a joyous smile spread over the weary healer's maw, her arms flung open wide to embrace the other woman should she allow it. "ORIN!"

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