


Homesick

by Fallyn Irlandes



Category: Queen's Thief series
Genre: Angst
Language: English
Status: Completed
Published: 2014-02-02
Updated: 2014-02-02
Packaged: 2014-04-13 18:39:44
Rating: K+
Chapters: 1
Words: 316
Publisher: www.fanfiction.net
Story URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10076803/1/
Author URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4454685/Fallyn-Irlandes
Summary: Two times Eugenides is homesick. Oneshot, vague spoilers for The Thief and King of Attolia.





	Homesick

Sounis' prison stank. The air was stale. The walls were full of sickeningly sweet mold. The rank odor of unwashed humans permeated everything, and over all of it was the gag-inducing scent of human waste and vomit.

It was such a far cry from what Eugenides was used to.

The mountains—his mountains—had air that was fresh. Cold, sharp—clean. He missed the mountains. He wanted _out. _He wanted to go _home._

But he couldn't go. Not yet. No, to protect, keep, and safeguard his home, he had to be here. In prison. Disguised, unimportant, stinking—

He began to wonder if it would ever wash out.

—

Attolia was flat. Dry. The horizon was shapeless. The air was heavy.

He'd begun to forget.

He'd started to forget what the cool mountain air felt like. How it smelled. What the horizon should look like—every direction a different silhouette than the one before, diverse and beautiful and anything but the monotony of this infernally _flat, _dryplace.

He missed the rain.

He missed the particular humidity—or lack thereof—of the mountains.

He missed his _home._

He sat there, facing the window, as close to home as he could get, and he wondered if homesickness was fatal, and then he wondered if he even cared.

* * *

_A/n: It's slightly horrible that my first gift to the Queen's Thief fandom is an angsty bit, but i can blame this on my fic-a-thon and the fact that today is Angst and I drew Queen's Thief. And I-who live in the Rocky Mountains-wondered if Gen ever got homesick. And then I remembered that bit in the third book and of course he would. I'm not sure if Attolia really is flat, but I'm saying it is for the sake of the fic. Just take it from someone who lives in the mountains-after a while, flat horizons get maddeningly boring. _


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