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How could she not remember? It was probably the most defining moment of my life, and she –
“I’m kidding,” she says with a grin. “I didn’t declare it in a moment of insanity. I love you.”
“I love you, too,” I growl. Something about it still feels like it goes against my very nature, but perhaps the more I say it, the more familiar it will become to me.
I fix her breakfast the old-fashioned way, finding a roaming worg in the desert, then cooking it over a fire. I know that I could just as easily summon cooked worg to myself, but I find solace in providing for her.
We sit around the fire, enjoying its warm embrace in the cool, damp cavern.
“You know, you kinda cheated,” she tells me while tearing from the flesh of the baked worg.
“I did no such thing!”
“The idea was to do everything the ‘mortal’ way,” she says pointedly.
I try to understand what she means.
“I hunted the worg on my own two feet…”
“After you flew to find it,” she says.
“We never said flying wasn’t allowed!”
“It’simplied.”
“It’s a technicality.”
“And then you used your powers to start this fire,” she says, gesturing toward it.
I shake my head. My claws ball up into fists. My mind drives me toward rage. I can’t believe how ungrateful she is. I’ll crush her where she stands for her insolen…
“You’re right,” I tell her. “I genuinely don’t know how you lived like this.”
“Which is why we’re not doing this every day,” she says. “You might think it’s quaint, returning to the life of a mortal, but mortalsstarvein the desert.”
“You didn’t,” I growl.
“And I was very lucky.”
“No. You were very talented.”
She stares at the roaring fire. “Honestly, it’s all a blur for me. I can remember everything that happened, but it’s like it happened to somebody else, or a version of me in another lifetime.”
I sigh. We could go back and forth on this forever.
Her humility is one of the things I love most. She pretends to be some simple human, wandering through the desert, when she’s so much more than that.
There’s something almost divine about her.
“Did you bring down any caravans while I was out,” she asks, taking another bite. “Lay waste to any more mortals?”
I pause, looking out at the cavern entrance, and the distant wasteland.
“I didn’t.”
“And why not? Don’t tell me I’m rubbing off on you.”
She nudges me in the ribs. Fighting the urge to react, I instead smile down at her.
