under love's heavy burden do i sink
Aug. 4th, 2014 09:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theunpressuredclubThe Queen of Camelot has been avoiding the King.
Well, not that anyone save the King would notice. In public, she appears by his side as always. Kisses him goodbye whenever he goes out on rides. For all intents and purposes, the King and Queen seem as happily-- or at least as functionally-- married as they did from the beginning.
But it's the moments that aren't seen by others that make it clear something's changed. It's the fact that Rachel hasn't been spending her more free time in his presence. That she hasn't been idly touching him or letting the moments of quiet intimacy they usually have happen. That there's clearly something on her mind but that, for once, she hasn't shared it with him.
And there doesn't seem to be anyone who knows why. The Queen's ladies haven't been allowed insight into the woman's mind. The knight who has gained the friendship of both royals-- and more, in the case of the King-- hasn't actually been permitted in her presence since about when she started avoiding the King.
But the Queen of Camelot will not be able to keep her husband at bay forever. And the Queen of Camelot certainly can't avoid her husband in their own chambers.
Especially not when the King of Camelot finds her on her knees in prayer, muffling quiet sobs against the side of their bed.
Well, not that anyone save the King would notice. In public, she appears by his side as always. Kisses him goodbye whenever he goes out on rides. For all intents and purposes, the King and Queen seem as happily-- or at least as functionally-- married as they did from the beginning.
But it's the moments that aren't seen by others that make it clear something's changed. It's the fact that Rachel hasn't been spending her more free time in his presence. That she hasn't been idly touching him or letting the moments of quiet intimacy they usually have happen. That there's clearly something on her mind but that, for once, she hasn't shared it with him.
And there doesn't seem to be anyone who knows why. The Queen's ladies haven't been allowed insight into the woman's mind. The knight who has gained the friendship of both royals-- and more, in the case of the King-- hasn't actually been permitted in her presence since about when she started avoiding the King.
But the Queen of Camelot will not be able to keep her husband at bay forever. And the Queen of Camelot certainly can't avoid her husband in their own chambers.
Especially not when the King of Camelot finds her on her knees in prayer, muffling quiet sobs against the side of their bed.
