"I just don't get why he did not care as I left..." I nearly sobbed on my way back to the magic academy. I have tried so hard for him, yet he could not care if I was around. If he wanted to turn the others away, then fine! But I was not someone he should be doing that to!
For a moment as well, I came to a stop. Frustrated with how it has all turned out. I left my flower for this... I gave it all up for this...
I didn't regret it at the time, but circumstances made me change my mind... I wanted to just go back to the way it all was. But I also did not want to abandon my Love. I could never find someone to love again after meeting him...
"But if I was to just go... I could not do it like this." I commented before I looked at that seed I took out my drink. I don't know why, but I had kept ahold of it since last night.
"Come on little one, time to go eat."
"Yes, mama!" a familiar voice laughed eagerly. It was a beautiful sound. So I looked at its source. And I found myself overflowing with jealousy as I saw it.
The first thief, the one I punished justly for her transgressions... She was there, enjoying her time with her son. Her beautiful baby boy... My lesser was doing all of that while I was...
Here, alone...
"Dandel'lhia." I said clearly, but not quite loud enough. So I just glared at that woman as she walked off with her son. Then I briefly looked into the building where all the other children were. She wasn't the only aelenvari mother here either.
However, she was the only one who had a flower to go back to... Her son still had a father who wanted to hold him. And while I did not love him anymore. And while I wasn't an Ivy-Mother anymore...
I just couldn't let this stand!
Time away from my Love would surely show how important I am to him, no? Being away from him before made him fight so bravely for me! He overcame his better I took me back into his arms! Maybe that is what was needed here too...?
I could only hope so...
So I looked on at the disappearing thief and her son. The son a younger, ignorant me should've carried. And while I was not the mother, I had a responsibility to this child. It was me who looked after him, after all.
His mother gave all control over his well-being to me! And she has shown me how bad a mother she was... She hadn't nurtured him into a proper man at all! She just doted on him ceaselessly!
To say nothing of her attempts to return him to his father...
"I, however, will not make that mistake." I whisper into the wind before I make a sharp turn for my current place of residence. Maybe my longing for the Garden-Mount was a premonition of sorts? A desire implanted in me so that I could help this sapling? There was no way it could not be!
So I needed to prepare myself for all the troubles ahead! I needed to leave with that sapling as soon as I could so I could take him home. He needed to be raised within a flower to grow properly! Not fattened within a place like this!
Our people needed more sons, he would make none when surrounded by the beauty of wind-people!