What If…?

The silence rose in the air as they both sat on the dirt looking up at the sunlight that found its way through the branches towering above them. For others, it may seem that the silence was suffocating but for them, it wasn't quite so…they needed this never-ending silence for a moment so that they could both grasp what fate has thrown them in.

Nefertari more than anyone else understood the overwhelming feeling that he was going through. The tangled fate that was developing over the years as they grew up, almost as their fate was sealed since the day that they were born. Even though their fathers were fated to be enemies after being more than brothers, they both knew that that was never going to be the case for them.