Aurora reached the altar with her eyes wet, and said, to the only man she had ever loved, "It's really happening..."
"It was always just a matter of time," Quinlan smiled.
Lucille came with her daughter.
Mavena walked her mother down the aisle with a flat expression and a grip that would have held a horse. Despite being the only one in the harem who had been married before, Lucille looked just as stiff as the others.
"Hold me before I faint," she whispered to Mavena.
"Mom... You should already be-"
"I just signed some papers back then to save my life. This is very different!"
Kaelira came in the fourteenth dress.
There had been thirteen before it, and nobody in the square would ever know. White silk, cut close, no train. Her teammates Liora and Shallan walked her, one on each arm, a friend to each side. The Runeweaver Titan went scarlet to the ears at the first step but did not stop walking.
