"HOOT HOOT"
[Why is this guy always fainting in the first place??? What a weak soul he was. Are you sure you gonna take this lad as your husband, your highness?]
"Of course I would, if not him who else should I pick for myself? He was perfect for me. Besides, he was my fated husband. It was not like I could ask for another one? You know them up there, they were so strict when it comes to the marriage thing so I will have to stick with it until the end of time. So stop saying not so good things about him, or as her wife, I'll have no choice but to roast you. You get that?"
Nathalia said with a blank emotion as she stared back at Aiden's sleeping face.
"HOOT! HOOT!"
[That was a total 'effin EEWWW!!!! Your Highness?! Did you just hear yourself???? What happened to your eyesight??? You deserve better than that mundane, and you knew it for yourself!]
"I am not too sure about it as well, Hootie. I-i--I don't know what's happening to me??? It was like there was something in me that makes me drawn into him. When I first lay my eyes on him back there at the wedding night, for the first time in my long life a felt this uneasy feeling in my gut and then it was like something inside me wanted to set loose and my heart started to pound on my chest like crazy."
"HOOT! HOOT!"
[Holy Molly! Where is my highness? Where did you bring her??? My true highness will not say such cheesy words.]
"Oh, shut up Hootie. You're not helping me at all. Do you think this was all because the fated thing set up by the Moiras?? Does it mean that I am really bound to be madly in love with this human????"
"HOOT HOOT!"
[Well, now that you put it that way... Hmmm.. That quite makes sense to me now. Since you two were fated to be together and your destinies were intertwined with one another before you two even got a chance to get conceived by your parents, then I guess it was all normal to be head over heels with one another. I mean, that was you two were supposed to be in the first place.]
"I think that was gross??? Let alone say, too cliche! This feeling is new to me and I am not liking how this feeling was affecting me. I hate it when I can't have full control over my own emotion"
"HOOT HOOT!"
[Well, that's how love was supposed to be, your highness. No one can't have full control over it or it would not be called pure love in the first place.]
"Exactly, and that was why I hated this feeling, this love. I don't want how it was messing with my judgment. Look how I carried him back on his bed with my own arms?? Is that even what a Queen does?! I AM A QUEEN! For crying out loud! And here I am."
"HOOT HOOT!"
[Yeah, and there you are. Tucking your dear husband to his bed. Ohh! and now you are even putting a blanket over him. That was so considerate of you, your highness.]
Apparently, Nathalia unknowingly tucked Aiden on his bed and she even put a blanket to cover him after that without her even realizing her own action.
"WHAT THE HEC---"
Nathalia immediately snatched back the blanket that she used to put over Aiden when she realized what she was actually doing.
She was just about to curse aloud when Aiden murmured something in his half-asleep state.
"Hmmm.. It was so cold..."
And again before she knew it, Nathalia was back at tucking Aiden under his thick warm blanket.
"See?? This is exactly what I mean. I don't know why I am doing all this crazy stuff for him. I am not even supposed to be here, to begin with."
Nathalia said in a whisper trying to speak as softer as she could so as not to wake up the sleeping Aiden.
"HOOT! HOOT!"
[Do I also need to answer you back in the same manner, like are we supposed to be whispering at one another???]
"Never mind Hootie. He can't hear you anyways."
"HOOT HOOT!"
[Great! So what I think about this, your highness, is that you just have to embrace your fate as it is. Let your love go fonder. Your love story was already written in a hard book, anyways. Those three busybodies, the Moiras, probably made sure of that. You two were a match made from heaven. Both figuratively and literally.]
"Wait! The first time we enter this room, you were so against me ending up with this human. Now you are telling me to accept him with open arms. Are you not getting a change of heart way too quickly?"
For the first time in her extremely long, immortal life, Nathalia thought for a second that she was actually having a proper conversation with her pet, Hootie.
Yet not a moment later, she then realized that it was exactly just like any other of their usual senseless conversations in the past.
They were just talking in circles and she would just end up wondering to herself, why did they even start this conversation.
"HOOT HOOT!"
[Whatelse could I do? It's not like we could defy the wills of Heavens? You know them up there. They were quite pretty tenacious in imposing their wills on others. You should know better than anyone.]
"And that is why I hate everything about this more. It felt like I was being robbed of my own choice and free will. Why does it have to be predestined? Why does my own love story have to be written beforehand???"
"HOOT HOOT"
[Well I think you were not exactly robbed of your choice. It was just that someone high up there already made a great plan for you. And that plan is still open for future modification. See, he gave you life, and that life that you have right now is his question to test you and see if he still needed some altercation on his plan. How you lived that life was your answer to his question.]
"Ohh... Speak in English, Hootie. I can't understand your point when you speak in such wisdom. It was so unlike you, by the way"
"HOOT HOOT"
[Ohh??? Is that so? Then never mind. Just forget everything I said. I don't even know what does it mean, anyway. I just read it in the book.]
"Have anyone told you that you are an awful owl, Hootie? I thought that all the owls were wise. But I guess there was always an exemption."
"HOOT HOOT"
[Well your highness, to answer your question. None. No one has ever told me about it yet. First and foremost and the most important reason was that no one can speak to an owl like me as you do.]
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