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“It was my mother.” She raises her head to look back at me. As our eyes met, I can see the tenderness within her own. A feeling I am unfamiliar with takes hold of me.
“I heard her voice out there in the desert.” She raises her hand to point to the entrance of the cave. “She called out to me. So, I ran after her... And that was when you found me.” A soft smile finds its place on her face. “That was when you saved me.”
I think I understand now. The anger I had felt inside of myself was misplaced. In fact, it was not anger at all that I thought I felt but rather it wasfear.
It was fear of losing her. I have never felt fear before. Fear was for the cowardly beings who dared cross paths with me. Is this feeling of attachment like that for all of my property? Or just for her?
This feeling is like anger, but not at her. She ran off, that much is true, and that action raises anger in me like anything else that chooses to disrespect me and my domain.
Could this feeling be...?I am left confused by my own self for the first time ever.
“Well.” I raise myself up taller to stand above her. “You are mine. I will not let any harm befall you so long as you continue to do as I wish.”
“I understand.” She nods. “I won’t ever leave you. I could never go back to being on my own again. Especially not after all the time we have spent together.”
Her words make my chest grow tight. I enjoy it when she worships me, as all things should, but these words from her make me feel something different.
“I have only ever been alone,” I admit. “I have never shared my territory with any other living being.”
“You’ve always been by yourself?” Her face contorts into a look of both concern and confusion. I do not like it.
“Both the wild worgs and the thoughtless equu know to fear me. The infernal
elves and orcs dare not to trespass upon my land lest they earn my ire.” I feel myself growing hotter.
Every word exchanged between us fills me with something akin to frustration, but they are not entirely the same feeling. Not knowing them clearly, however, causes me frustration.
“Because of this,” I continue. “There has been no room for another being to exist within my own space of living.”
“Are you saying there’s no room for me here...?” Her eyes appear to grow watery. Ido not like how that makes me feel.
“Of course, there is!” I shout. Those watery eyes of hers disappear, and in their place, I see fear. Ireallydo not enjoy how that makes me feel. That feels wrong.
When creatures look upon me with fear in their eyes, I relish the feeling. Bask in it. Yet here when she does the very same, there is something about it I do not enjoy. Her eyes must look at me with adoration and reverence.
“I have made room for you among all my things,” I say, trying to change that look in her eyes back to what it should be. “Though I do understand that there will be many challenges for you to face, living with me.”
“Whatever they are, I can take them.” The look on her visage is completely different now. It reminds me of that feeling I felt a moment ago. Not anger, butpride. Is she proud to be my pet?
“Is something wrong?” Her hand touches my chest slowly.
“Wrong? How could anything be wrong around me?”
“Your eyes...” She caresses my cheek with her other hand. “It looked like you were thinking deeply about something.”
How could she possibly know that?I grab her hand on my chest and move it off of me carefully. I hold it tightly within my own.
"I said it earlier, and I’ll say it again. I cannot go back to being on my own. I know my mother is gone. Even then, when I heard her calling out to me, I knew she was gone.” She came in close. I look down to see her head against my chest. “I have been so afraid of being on my own that when I heard her calling out to me, I couldn’t help but go to her. But it wasn’t real, was it?”
My arms move on their own. I am unsure why, but I do not fight against it. Both my arms and wings wrap around her. Together, we look as if we are wrapped in a feathery blanket. Many feelings I have never known before now swell within me as her body comes closer. Her voice is muffled against my sternum.
“But you’re real.Thisis real. You’re as beautiful as the stars in the night sky and warmer than the scorching sun out there in the desert. I want to stay with you for as long as you will let me.”
"I have not been praised so accurately before. Carry on with more words such as those, and I will never willingly dispose of you.” I relinquish my hold upon her to gain a better view of her facial features. New sensations unfamiliar to me swell deep within every fiber of my being.
“Always! I will tell you how amazing you are every morning and every night.” Her eyes light up like the stars she described before. I can see myself within them. “Speaking of the night...”
“What about it?” I inquire.
