Fic: The Fire of Vesta

Title: The Fire of Vesta
Fandom: Rosemary Sutcliff, Eagle of the Ninth
Rating: G
Beta: carmarthen
Disclaimer: So not mine. :(
Prompt: hc_bingo, orphans
Summary: “Marcus, you never speak of your mother," said Cottia. “Yes; what was she like?”

It had been so long since he had spoken of his mother that he did not know how to answer; and the force of that long habit gave him a strange reluctance to speak of her now. “Why do you ask?” he said, at last.

Cottia shifted restlessly. “Only I have been thinking about my mother,” she said, and her hand rested a moment on her belly.

This is kind of a sequel to A Wedding Gift, only not exactly.

Also at AO3, here.

( The Fire of Vesta )