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13
DENVE
She is with me one minute, and then gone the next.
“I turned away for one minute! How could she have disappeared so quickly? And why did she disappear?”
The disappearance of the human woman, Salina, is disturbing to me for several reasons.
Maybe it is disturbing to you because it feels like something important has been wrenched away from you?
Maybe it is disturbing to you because it feels like the floor has crumbled out from beneath you.
I don’t understand why I feel this way about a woman I have just met.
Your first meeting didn’t exactly go the traditional way,I think as I look down at myself.
My shirt is rumpled, and the fabric of my jacket is crushed. The front of my trousers has been unbuttoned, and I groan as I look down at my hardened state.
Maybe her mate came to find her, and she had to vanish before they discovered she was in a tryst with a different male.
Maybe she is still here,I think as I right my clothes.Maybe I can still find her!
I don’t know where this new urgency has come from. I am one of the most apathetic people I know.
After meeting her, having her in my arms, tasting her, feeling her, I know two things.
First, she has inflamed something in me that I didn't know existed.
Second, she is important. I do not know why she is important. All I know is that I cannot go on without knowing more about her.
I rush out of the prince’s private rooms and back to the main room where the ball is being held.
My heart sinks in my chest as I look at the crowds of dark elves in the ballroom.
But I persevere and walk up and down around the ballroom, looking for her.
I must look like a crazed person, as I walk hurriedly with my shirt buttoned up wrong, and my shoes on wrong.
How long has it been?I think dazedly.
I must walk through the permitted areas of the castle for an hour before I give up.
She isn’t here. She is very clearly not here any longer.
I have one last hope.
I find the dark elf who she was dancing with before me. I pull him roughly away from the dark elf noblewoman he is speaking to and question him about Salina.
He has no answers for me.
I ask the people around him too. But no one has heard of a human woman fitting her description, who is also the mate of a dark elf, related to the royal family,
As I think about it, about the story, I realize that it is a complete and utter lie.
Why would she tell a lie like that?I think to myself.Why would she want to get into this ball?
And how did she get into the ball?
