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Rafe
I’d spent too many months trying to grow these damned melons on my own before I bugged someone to help me. Sven wouldn’t stop laughing when I’d suggested the topic, everyone else wouldn’t let it go either. Once the melons were grown I left Sven in charge with little promise of my return. I had to see her.
Somehow the melons made the trip across the Cam Lanteux and I’d found myself asking to be introduced as an emissary, in front of Lia I knelt and looked her in the eyes, waiting.
It was only a few seconds but it felt like an eternity. I wanted to crush her into my arms but knew that she had to accept my ridiculous apology if I could hope for anything.
I looked into her soul, reading her, she motioned for me to stand and it was all I could do to wait until I was fully standing before I crushed my lips to hers. All of the worry that things wouldn’t have a chance was replaced by my endless love for her. I painfully separated my lips from hers, still holding her body close, speaking only for Lia, “where’s your room?”
“Here,” she took me by the hand and led me to her room, it wasn’t long before we’d shed our clothes and my lips were exploring her body. How long had it been since I’d last seen her, let alone held her in my arms.
Lia
I curled into his chest, feeling his heart and hearing his breath, utterly consumed by him. Not an hour ago I had been trying to ignore the hole I'd thought I’d have forever. Always trying to make peace with the decisions we’d made. Now I was wrapped in his arms as if no time had passed. What a world we lived in.
I mulled over his words, surely we can find a way for us.
A promise if I’d ever heard one. We’d talk, in a day or two, of all this meant now. I had heard of the dissolving of his betrothal, it had gone smoothly, but I’d assumed it changed nothing, for him it must’ve changed everything.
And the melons! Oh the melons, it made me long once more for the comfort of Terravin. I could never return everything the way it had been, but things seem to be better now.
Everything really was for the best.