They don't want to be set free -- Paradise Isle

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Date Posted: 20:42:19 07/07/03 Mon
Author: Daughter of Light
Subject: They don't want to be set free
In reply to: Steel Dream 's message, "Fare ye well...." on 16:18:49 07/06/03 Sun

Her despair mingled with concern as he turns. His eyes were haunted, broken. She knew, in that moment, that he was not leaving her selfishly, but out of great sacrifice. Still, her heart burned to run to him as he approached, to feel his touch again, to let that moment never end. When he spoke, her world stopped for him, revolving slowly on his struggling words. With painful understanding in her eyes, she held his own for as long as he would, wanting him to see her emotions since she dared not trust her voice. She was hurt, yes, but she loved him, and understood. A retreating wave sucked at her hooves as her love walked out of her life. Picking up her feet against this current, she turned away, sodden banner hanging limply against her hocks. She could not bare to watch him disappear again. With a step as heavy as her heart, she walks to her son, standing some distance away in the sand. He was the only one who could possibly know what was whirling through her mind, the only one that had been with her long enough to understand.

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[> Gone -- Steel Dream, 09:38:21 07/09/03 Wed [1]

If I drowned... if I slipped under the water... The chestnut stallion, alone now for all the world, swam with less and less energy across the brief span of fairly turbulent water he had crossed many times before. But then he felt the sand again beneath his hooves, lifting him upwards onto the far shore, and the temptation to surrender to the beautiful oblivion of death was no longer dangerously calling him.

And thus he said his final words to his beloved as his heart shattered, no longer able to go on without her. ~*~Goodbye, DOL. I will always love you.~*~ Then he was gone.

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