Mass release: 7/25
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Maybe that's why he held onto me, so I could ground him too.
Then everything changed.
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Everything was black, until it wasn't.
When I opened my eyes, we were being astrally projected to a place I never saw before, a place that felt like... home. It took me a minute to focus my vision, to blink and look around, to try understanding what was happening. I found myself in a majestically beautiful palace room, made of gold, amethysts, and star dust, a couple was standing in front of a cradle sculpted in gold in the form of a moon flower, and they felt... familiar. Something deep within me was reacting to them, but I couldn't pinpoint what it was, that is, until they turned around.
He was as tall as Eric, his hair wavy black, his skin as pale as mine, his eyes were golden, and he had a mischievous look in his eyes that I've only see in one instance in my life, which is the mirror, a star dust crown was adoring his head beautifully, and he was all dressed in black and a really dark shade of purple, but his attire was no short of royal, his ears pointy like all fae, and when he blinked, his eyes were reptilian slits like the eyes of a dragon for an instant, but full of love. A love so deep like what bloomed between Eric and me.
She... she was tall like me, her skin a bit more colorful than his but white still, her hair was bright cherry red like I've never seen before, her eyes were bright and amethyst purple, and that devilish smile of hers was painfully familiar, so were the dimples at the corner of her lips and the ones on her cheeks, or her entire body, from her sharp jaw to her small button sub nose, from her almond shaped eyes to her long curve lashes, from her round full lips with a slit on the center of the bottom that makes it look like she had a piercing there to the curliness of her long hair, from her expressive full eyebrows to her elongated canines. Me. She looks like me.
"How about Meridia?" She smiled at him, enchantingly. "Or Dominique?" She tilted her head. "Though I also like Ivelle, Nerissa, and Melantha. Ravenna too."
"No, I want a name more... demon-ish, like yours, darling," he winked.
Her cheekbones blushed, "I don't think the fae will like to have a Crowned Princess named like a demon, Mar," she said softly as he walked her to sit with him on the couch near the cradle.
"She is both a fae and a demon, Eyana darling," he kissed her hand gently. "We have to name her, we can't just call her starlight, to present her to our people."
"You think... you think they'll be okay with it? Our daughter is... different."
"Our daughter," he held her face with but hands, caressing her cheeks, "is a fae, a demon, and she is the Crowned Princess, they'll accept it, she is a Fae'nyx, and she is to be the strongest out of us all, especially because she is different."
But she looked conflicted about something, "I shouldn't have drank the potion from the ancient being that I found on Tartarus, that... that will make it harder for her to be accepted, Mar. I... I don't want our daughter to go through what I did. Your people don't like demons, they don't like that you've married me, and they will be harder on her because she's a... she's,"
"Our people," he corrected, pressing his forehead on her, making her look at him, and that was sadness in his eyes, "and you are my mate, Eyana Soraya Clethinthiallorr, you are my twin heart, you are linked to my soul forever and enough, and they have no saying in this. I am the King of the Kingdom of Nyx, my word is law, and I will be with no one other than my mate, that is you, my darling," still holding her face, he tilted her chin up and kissed her tenderly. "I love you, my mate, I love you, I love you."
"I love you more," she whispered, hugging him.
"I love you most," he kissed once again. "I think I have the perfect name."
Her cheeks blushed again and this time she smiled, "Yeah? Which one?"
"The star Princess capable of great destruction!" He beamed.
She gasped, "That's not a name, Mar-Nevek Balor Fae'nyx, we can't name our baby daughter like that. That's not a Princess name, and,"
Giggling, he kissed her again, shutting her for a second, "No, no," he nuzzled his nose on hers, "I'm not saying that's the name, I'm saying that's the meaning of the name I'm thinking about, darling. She was born in April 1st, according to Ivar Wierzuchowska from the Star Tower, she is guarded by the constellation of Aries, a strong one, her zodiac sign is the first of the twelve, of fire element, he said she will be a hot-tempered one, but that she was born to ruled us all. She is a trihybrid, the first trihybrid existent,"
"People will be scared of her, Mar, because of what she is," she cried, tears rolling down her cheeks, and all I could feel was sadness, raw and destructive.
He hugged her, "Don't blame yourself, darling, don't do that."
"If I hadn't drank the potion, I,"
"The potion saved your life, darling," he held her face softly. "They tried to poison you to death, and I punished them for it, I wish I could go back in time and avoid them from doing so, but even though I'm a dragon of time that's beyond my abilities, and I'm sorry. We had to give you the potion, it was the only artifact that was powerful enough to save you and our daughter together, and she isn't a monster, she is just stronger than your kind now. It was a good thing."
"Mar," she held his face, "you don't know what that is capable of, not when it-"