Chapter 477: Reunion and New Arrivals
Tala found herself holding Sella, curled up in a chair within her sanctum.
Sella was to leave for the Academy the next day, and Tala wanted just a bit more time with the girl.
Sella was snuggled close, clearly feeling some of the same desire for connection and closeness as Tala did.
This is my last sibling… There aren’t any more behind her.
-Well, if things go as expected, you’ll start having nieces and nephews before too long.-
Tala’s eye twitched at that. The very idea of her siblings having children was… disconcerting? Uncomfortable? She wasn’t entirely sure.
Nea’s wedding festivities had just drawn to a close, and the girl—covered in green paint rather than the yellow she’d started with—had bid her family goodbye just a few hours earlier.
The days of celebration had allowed Tala to catch up with Illie and Nalac—they had good natured grumbles about their masters but were doing well overall—as well as her other siblings. Even Mita and Akli were there, and Tala did her best to inquire after their lives as newlyweds. The conversations had been cordial, but there was still a distance between them and Tala, even if it was no longer a distance born of disinterest.
The gap might be bridged in years to come, or it might not, but they were all now willing for it to be so spanned.