"There he goes again... All for you..." I commented with a sigh as I walked up to the thief's bed. Just like before with the Gilded-Bark, the man I was in love with was taken away from me. And while I could understand it better this time. I was still by no means happy about it.
This woman was so beautiful... I might as well have been a root in comparison to her. It was no wonder she caught my Love's eye. She was far beyond me...
And even if I dug into other possible ways she ensnared his heart, she was still my better. My Love only ever smiled around her. He was at his happiest with her. I understood why and didn't at the same time.
"It should be me he goes to these lengths for..." I angrily mutter under my breath as my tubes tap against the polished floor. As I paced about as well, I once again naturally found myself looking out across the settled-flower. This city of Thrurstradtur as they called it. Yet, my gaze went beyond its hedges and off into the distance.
I might not have been able to see it, but I knew it was in the direction I was looking. The Garden-Mount of my flower, my people. The place I had hoped to plant a seed of my own. One he gifted to me because he loved me like I did him...
But that dream was going to never happen now. I had forsaken my right to ever go back there when I gave up my role as Ivy-Mother. I threw it all away for my Love so I could be with him. And I did it all for nothing...
"Because he loves you!" I spit before I aggressively approached the bed she was laying in. For weeks now had she been dormant. Not a stir or sign of life that she once showed... And every other night, my Love came back bloodied and beaten trying to save her.
It made me angry, it should have been me! It should've been me! I was the one who was there for him from the start of it all! It was me who helped him conquer his fears of what he had become! It was my love for him that gave him the strength to climb this mountain...
"SO GIVE HIM BACK, THIEF!" I roar in the sleeping beauty's face before I backed up. Looking up with uncertainty when I heard that someone else was in the room.
"What troubles you, my Dear?" a man unlike any other asked as he stepped out from the shadows all of a sudden. I wanted to question where he had come from, or who he was. But just seeing him left me in a heated trance...
"So... H-Handsome..." I uttered with a gulp before I violently shook my head. Blocking my eyes completely when I felt them come over and take me into their arms. Their touch was so intoxicating... It had such talent for pulling out the wildest, most primal form of love.
But I did my best to push him away. I made a promise to my Love. I had to keep it. I can't just go back on my word like this!
"Oh, that's what I like to see!" the stranger cackled before he stepped away from me. And, in but one confusing moment, that beauty from before disappeared. He was suddenly lesser than my Love... Yet, there was something very strange about the way he looked.
I could see no outline to his power. My Love had a distinct outline, a shell that contained all that power... Yet this man, he lacked it in its entirety. He was an enigma beyond me.
"What do you want? How did you get in here?" I demanded to know once I got control of myself again.
"Did you know, in all my time doing what is right by this city. I have never had to kill an aelenvari?" he randomly told me. But that while his words were strangely reassuring. I was now aware that he was a threat.
For now, though, I decided to trust in that declaration of his...
"And why might that be?" I asked him dismissively as I sat down and cross my legs. Leaning my bottom forward while one hand traced the edges of my breasts. The other, took hold of a fine glass so I could get back to the drink I had poured myself.
"Aelenvari are good mothers, unlike this girl here." he snickers maliciously before he walks over to the grand window.
"Humans have their flaws, yes." I comment nonchalantly as hearing this failing brought a smile to my face. She was not perfect, and that meant I could usurp her wrongfully gained affection.
"As do you, no?" he asks as he walks closer. The distinct sound of something dropping into my glass scares me. Much to his amusement.
"Wh-What did you do!?" I nearly screech as I scramble to take it out of my drink. Only to slow down and become confused once I picked it out. It was a small seed from some fruit...?
"Dropped a fruit seed." he cackles before he crunches into something that appeared in his hands. It looked like a yellow-skinned rolling fruit.
I snort, unamused by the antics of it, "Get to the point."
"I'll leave this here, let you figure it out for yourself. Besides, got to dodge this incoming swing!" he cackles before vanishing all of a sudden.
"My Love...?" I question as I look down at the dark streets below. Was this something to do with him? Was that the madman who he has been so determined to hunt in recent memory? Better yet, was there a way to make him help me?
Make my Love care about me as much as he did this woman that man attacked?
"Eugh, hate yellow." was all I had to say about the fruit, however. So I binned it and then headed to bed. I would need to get some rest before I could attend to my Love's injuries. Or, rather, as it has been these past few weeks...
Just linger in the corner of his vision as the wind-people reluctantly helped him out...