Buttercup
Buttercup is indeed a miracle. Seanna’s parents have always had complications with pregnancy, amassing years worth of sweat and tears under their belt. The result was a small sum of two healthy chicks....and one sickly one.After Brook died, Ivory swore off of having children for good. The death, the disappointment....everything. It was too much for her. She couldn’t watch another child slip from her grasp. She couldn’t bear to feel her heart shatter anymore.
But that all changed when Seanna, bless his heart, settled into the kingdom as its new king and Tanny (bless hers too) left home to seek out a life of adventure, leaving their cottage half abandoned. Which was...fine at first. Ivory didn’t mind the quiet, and she relished in the chance to have some privacy for once. But she quickly began to find that she so dearly missed the pitter patter of tiny feet running around her home. She missed walking around with chicks glued to her legs....missed the feeling of a small hand pressed to hers. She even missed sweeping the insufferable amounts of down off the floors. She just...missed her children.
One night she sits her husband down for a long conversation. There’s a lot of crying, sniffling, gushing and the like. But they agree to try one last time, before Ivory gets too old to conceive.
It’s...a harrowing experience, to put it lightly. Ivory has dealt with birth complications her entire life, but this run is by far the worst. Even by the end of it, when she’s holding a tiny buttercup in her arms, she can’t help but feel exhausted. And yet...they did it. Here’s buttercup. At least she can smile at that.
(Brief note: this comes WAYY later in the stories timeline, after Seanna’s main arch. He’s no longer the king and mainly travels with his main group of friends now.)
Hibiscus and Ivory invite Seanna to join them at home for the night before introducing him to his new sibling. It’s a lot to ask of him but Ivory kindly requests that he stays, if just for a little while, to help her take care of his brother....and to her utmost surprise, he obliges.
Those couple of months were some of the sweetest in Ivory’s life. But it all came to an abrupt end when one day Seanna returned home without Buttercup in his company, a horrified expression on his face.
He’d wandered off while they were playing hide and seek together. Into the forest...where the wolves had got him.
Ivory was a wreck. She buckled down on Seanna, screaming for him to get out of their home. To leave the village. To never come back. Hibiscus tried to assuage her but all Ivory could see was red. The baby boy she’d worked so hard for....was dead. And she blamed Seanna.
Her son leaves with few words to spare and Ivory retreats to her bedroom, shutting herself out for good. It seems it’s all finally taken its toll on her.Jun 8, 2021
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Buttercup is soo adorable! <33
Also you can edit the post to correct mistakes! ^~^
Also you can edit the post to correct mistakes! ^~^
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