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"And that was the dream," Audra concluded simply. "It was voices in a strange and noisy void."
"Is something bothering you lately?" the platinum-haired woman couldn't help but deduce something of that sort. "You know, dreams are sometimes things that our mind thinks or sees frequently."
"No, I refuse to believe that I would fixate on something like that," Audra tried to speak nonchalantly, shrugging. "Who would be so idle?"
"I don't know," Ethel replied with an ironic tone, her lips arched mischievously. "I really have no idea."
"So funny," Audra responded with a hint of irony. "Why haven't they hired you as a court jester yet, huh?" He arched one eyebrow as he approached her shoulder, almost lightly pushing her. "Your humor would be so memorable it would go down in history."
"Do you feel so offended by me insinuating something so obvious?" The tone was arrogant, sarcastic. "And besides, I really would... imagine," she le
᯽⊱❈═ E T H E L ═❈⊰᯽Footsteps could be heard by the tinkling of the armor, the heavy breaths, the drops that fell in that space.It was high, even falling from a feather there would be."Why am I here?... " Ethel began to wonder when tightening her long platinum hair "it wasn’t me... would not even be..." he continued to murmur as he held the waters that wanted to fall from his eyes.She tried to review all the things that made her reach that moment, from her childhood to her marriage, her sale."I can’t love you, I’ll never be able to love you," the platinum clearly remembered, remembered the intonation, the wide sapphire eyes, the way that man’s body had moved to throw that in her face.The same man who said he fell in love at first sight, the same man who had bright eyes and a gentle smile and a sweet voice; now he said he would not love her.Was she some kind of joke to him? Was there anything she had done wrong? Had that passion dissipated as its ashes would be in the wind? Was t
᯽⊱❈═ E T H E L ═❈⊰᯽A humming, that’s what I could hear in the background almost distant, one that belonged to a sweet and cozy voice, one that was nostalgic to him.The voice of your mother."Um..." the platinum end up grunting as she scratches her eyes "mom..., what are you doing here?" He couldn’t help but ask, but then he noticed; his hands were now small again, and his voice thin as when he was a child.Child? A... child?"What do you mean what am I doing here, silly?" His mother did not avoid laughing when answering, thus bringing one of his hands to his mouth "I came to stay with my little daughter, what else would I be doing here?" soon further messed up the hairs that were now short of Ethel.Now his purple eyes were confused, he was lost, he was wondering a thousand and one things inside his now small, pale head.Had she died? And if not, why did she come back? How did she come back? Who made her come back? With what method did she come back? Would that have any side effects
᯽⊱❈═ A U D R A ═❈⊰᯽Eyes as dark as the night that now surrounded him, black hair and a pale skin that was the complete opposite of what normally belonged to him.A disguise.A crude one.Well, but it wasn't as if the dragon needed more, not as if anyone would notice it was him, not with that little intellect that all those guards seemed to possess."Did you hear? They said she went crazy and killed the archduke's favorite mistress" one of the guards approached the one next to him "the cause was strangulation, and then a deep cut to the throat…" the man's gaze dropped, as if they were now feeling sorry for the poor soul they had never even met."Yes, everyone was talking about how the body was found, it was something horrible to see" the other added "she really must have succumbed to madness as they said, but it's not surprising" he leaned forward a little more, thus putting his hand in front of his mouth, like a true gossip woman of high society "it was common knowledge that she didn
᯽⊱❈═ K Y R E E ═❈⊰᯽Guilt.Guilt.Guilt.Guilt.Blame.Blame.Blame.His blame.Only his, no one else's, yours, and there would be no taking the weight off of him, the one that was crushing her bones with each passing day.She was dead, she was dead inside a body that still kept walking, the bright eyes, those purple ones that you admired so much from afar, that you loved so much and selfishly wanted to keep for yourself.They were dull.Dull.Imbecile!It was going on in his head, next to his fingers that were practically pulling the blond strands that he was so attached to before, that he was so proud of before.What good was it? What good did it all do?A descendant of the heavens? The title he had inherited from the Archduke? All the power and beauty that anyone could ever wish to have?What was the use?What was the problem?What was wrong with him?Everything."I ended her life." his eyes allowed the tears to well up, so that they came out in a shaky, choked tone "everything tha
᯽⊱❈═ A U D R A ═❈⊰᯽He would take that cold body in his arms, the one that was now lifeless and unresponsive, the one that now had a blade stuck in it with blood flowing as profusely as it did in a waterfall.He would bring her back.He stood up with her on his lap, and walked to the outside of the cell, where Kyree was staring at him with those deep eyes."Why are you still here?" the dragon asked in a cold, cutting way, with an arched lip that matched his "I thought you didn't care" he turned his now silver eyes to Ethel, eyes that now carried melancholy and regret."I had to be sure you wouldn't make a joke when you left," he said as he fixed his sapphire gaze on the corpse, "did you kill her?" he seemed to try to keep his tone unchanged, but clearly failed when he sounded embarrassed and frightened."Why do you care?" the silver eyes stared at him "do you want to pretend that she matters now?" he spoke trying to contain the scream he wanted to give, the anger he wanted to throw at
᯽⊱❈═ E T H E L ═❈⊰᯽At the festival, this was where she was, this place she found herself, in this call full of noise, people, and colors too vivid for her eyes to keep up with.'I don't know where to look…' she thought as she closed her eyes briefly, trying to make them not hurt, trying to get a direction of where she was, where she was taken."Ready...whoa...? - She looked around, looked everywhere possible but couldn't find it.No sign of those brown hairs that looked like honey when the sun was shining; no sign of those platinum hairs like hers.She was lost."We didn't even get to the festival properly." she realized while searching, while trying to see hair as white as the petals of a lily "how can I lose such white hair?" she asked herself, a question that was recurrent even in her early life, since it didn't enter her head how she could not find her father, not with such an extravagant color on his head."Miss...?" a child with black skin, burgundy hair and silver eyes asked a
᯽⊱❈═ A U D R A ═❈⊰᯽He had seen her again, had met those violet eyes he had seen lifeless, had seen that white hair without being stained with a viscous, icy crimson.He just saw her, being a child and simply... living."This... makes me happy," his forearm covered his eyes, eyes that could no longer stand the light coming into them, "I hope you're not an idiot like the first time," he smiled at the thought, wondering if she could ever reach that level again, if she would ever fall in love with that unhappy celestial.No, she couldn't.He hoped something would confirm that she was smarter than he expected."She has her memories, there's no way…" the silver-eyed man found himself answering his own questioning "only if he really thought he could change something, and this... clearly isn't the case" his voice was getting lower, worried "there's no way to change something like that, he's an imbecile of a Maverick" his teeth clenched, clenched, clen
᯽⊱❈═ E T H E L ═❈⊰᯽· · • • • One month later • • • · ·Papers, papers and more papers. That's what she had in her hands at that moment, the ones she had picked up while her father was not in his office."Let's see, who could it be?"She concentrated while reading in the middle of that garden full of flowers, the fragrance was spreading everywhere because of the wind that now messed up her hair and made it difficult to read."For the… I nee-...A leaf ended up flying through the air and a slight panic filled her. She couldn't lose that leaf, she shouldn't even have that leaf to begin with.But in the midst of this, red hair was seen next to a black garment that accompanied the hand that took the document. It was the boy who had helped her at the festival."...What are you doing here?" he seemed to really question as he looked into those silver eyes."Your father sa