A Nightmare's Worry

"You came into my presence, this very hour of work, to simply host a worry? A mere suspicion of actions? Do you perhaps understand what we are currently doing at the moment? Or perhaps you were too busy ignoring your current assignments to host meaningless thoughts. I'd like fair reasoning as to why you're disturbing my presence!" "As you say, I'm currently ignoring current orders given. However, I seek your ear on matters I'm finding concerning. As of recently? Things have changed a bit. I've....changed a bit. We...Us.....as lovers have changed. I wouldn't disturb you of this if I didn't find it dire. Please, grant me your ears. For this is worrying." "We aren't lovers in this moment, Miss Dawn. At the end of our days, hours after battles? We are lovingly intertwined. But in these moments of bother? You are my Lunar. Leader. One that is doing nothing more then wasting my time and not doing her job. I'm your Majesty. The one that is fighting for you and your species. The one that is fighting the Sun Prince. My own Brother. So for me to consider hearing words of yours instead of getting back to strategy planning? I'd find that hard to do. However....I'll humor this. Speak." "Nightmare,...erm...Your Majesty. Your fight against the Sun Prince has been going strong. Us under your guiding nights have achieved leverage in local areas. One day....very soon....we'll be towards the final march. The point of no return. And....well....recently....that no return has become a fear. For you see.....I fear....something could become of you that results in...you being gone.....taken away.... And the reason that I'm worried is because...." "You came into my presence, interrupted my work, begged my ear simply to call me weak?" "N-No!! No! That's not what I'm saying!" "I've spent the better of my beginning life...looked down on by others. My Father and My Brother to name as well. Now....my own mare...you I've given special privilege to be near me is claiming me as weak? Do you find something amusing in your words?" "I'm not calling you weak! I just don't want something to happen to you! You don't know the outcome of all of this! My reason is just! It's because!" "SILENCE! YOU'VE RAISED TONE AND WORDS ENOUGH! GO BACK TO YOUR POST AND DON'T YOU DARE BOTHER ME AGAIN! OR ELSE YOU DO, IT BETTER BE BECAUSE...." "I'M PREGNANT!!!" "..............." "I'm pregnant okay! We...we weren't thinking things through! We haven't thought things through! I-I haven't thought things through....Y-You aren't thinking it through....My....child. OUR child. One day...they'll enter this world. A-And....What happens if this world doesn't have their father in it?!!!!!" ------------------------- "Ahh!...heh...heheh....OH...my head....Dammit...." Artemis had just shot himself awake. His slumber. His peaceful night. All of it crashing down at once. For a distant memory decides to invade his dreams. His Sanctuary. All he could do was sit there for a bit, keeping track of his off-synced breathing. "Dawn....." Is all he spoke as he seemed to slowly lay back down, rewrapping his wings around his wife as he attempted to drift back into the dream world.