Planting The Seed (Part One)

That night, Heila joined Ashlynn in the latter's hut for the evening. After days of anxiously waiting for Ashlynn to pass her portion of the trial and sleeping alone in the hut that Talauia had prepared for her, Heila barely managed to hold herself back from asking to sleep with Ashlynn in the same bedroom. 

Perhaps it would have been easier if she'd adjusted to sleeping by herself in her own hut before Ashlynn underwent her trial, but right now, she just wanted to return to something that felt 'normal' and recently, normal meant sleeping near her lady and being available for anything she needed. 

After spending months so close to Ashlynn, Heila couldn't fail to notice the strain in her lady's voice when she spoke or the way she frequently touched her chest above the seed of witchcraft she'd nurtured.