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Subject: um, if it's incoherent it's because I'm tired... Author: Saeven [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 21:52:40 04/06/02 Sat Saeven's green eyes cast downwards. What should she tell him? The truth—the full truth, at least—would be too much, she thinks, for him to bear. She doesn't want to cause him distress. For the first time, she finds herself wishing that she could lie. Make up some story about Fading away too quickly or something... He might not even buy that, though. But I do not have to tell the whole truth, she reminds herself, only as much as he needs to know. After bearing her son in the Norse country, she had journeyed to Faery to beseech the Faery Queen. She's known she was Fading for some time, but she didn't want to Fade away into Faery; she loved the earth far too much. So she had sought to ask the Lady to let her dwell, Whole, in the material world. Saeven had told the Lady her condition, and why it had come about. She can still remember clearly the Faery Queen before her. Vivid, dark green eyes staring into her soul behind a curtain of raven hair. You man return to the world, she had then referred to her by her true name, and dwell there so long as you like. But all Nature is balance, and as I give, I must also take away. As you wish to live in the mortal world, you, too will become mortal. You will not age, but you may die. And, she had paused here, as you began to Fade from that world because the absense of a lover, so shall you live in it. And she had traced the sign of her blessing—the tearful crescent—on Saeven's forehead, where it had stayed. And so she had bowed her head and left Faery. It had been as much her own choice as it had been the decision of the Faery Queen. But she can't let Tarkin know the reason she had begun Fading. And while part of her feels she should tell him everything, all she says is, "It was the price I paid for returning to the world." [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]