02-04-2010, 10:12 AM
Imogen slowly felt better, cleansed somewhat as she finally let out the emotions that she had hidden, and pent up. Her tears flowed freely as she sobbed against the bats chest. She barely heard what he had to say to her as her mind somewhat settled more into a calmer state. She didn't even feel bitter at the breakdown at the time but there was still some lingering irritation in her. He didn't understand, but then again he really couldn't. Neither of them could really understand what she was going through because they didn't have the same expectations levied on them. When she had let enough out to regain some of her composure, she began authoring an explanation, but when she looked up to deliver it she found herself caught by the bat's eyes. She froze for a moment as she opened her mouth to speak and found no words left. She wouldn't be able to do it. In all of the training and classes she had to take to learn to be the next queen she had not been instructed on how to vocalize her own feelings. They weren't important to running a country. She didn't know if there was any way to salvage the image she had tried to create. The notion that she didn't really care one way or the other about their arranged marriage. The truth of it was that she didn't want to be a part of capturing Casey into something that he didn't want to do and loading her own expectations on him in addition to the rest of the royal family's. Now she probably couldn't deny it any more. Finding nothing left that she could think to do, she leaned forward, pressing her lips against his and wrapping her arms around his neck lovingly.
Fhtagn!