Homebound Heart ━━ Cassian Andor [COMING SOON]

𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐀𝐑𝐓.

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent
and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow
straight and open fully on their stems, so did I,
too, with my exhausted force.

❪ Dante Alighieri,   Inferno. ❫

Pylades: I'll take care of you.
Orestes: It's rotten work.
Pylades: Not to me. Not if it's you.

❪ Anne Carson,   Euripedes. ❫

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IF HE ASKS FOR YOUR NAME, WHICH ONE WILL YOU SAY?

          MEELEI ATHENE DUINE has been cradled by Alderaan's frost-forged land the moment she drew her first breath. This is your home, Meelei, her mother used to whisper into her ear. Always cherish your home. But when your mother and father leave you on a cold winter's day to fight a war they would never win, when drops of their warm ruby blood dissolve into the cold, dark Imperial air, are you still cradled by home?

          Queen Breha Organa decided, Yes, she is home with us. And so the little girl became a princess — a Duine girl (sad orphan girl with a heart cracked and jagged and broken enough to pulverize into dust) turned into an Organa royal (a princess taken in out of pity and put into good use by standing as a sister to the infant heir to the throne) overnight.