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 Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:43 pm
He laughed. "Yeah I guess there are. Tajenye is an awful singer, and I don't think Miw could sit in one place for more than a few minutes. So I suppose I don't have much to worry about." He shrugged happily as he walked and watched her.
She seemed to be thinking pretty deep. He could tell by the way her eyes didn't completely focus on him, like she saw him, but was also looking at something within herself. It was kind of... cute. But then she looked away and he couldn't see it anymore.
"Will I what?" he moved closer, trying to duck his head to see her face as they walked. "What do you need me to do, Gliri? I'll do anything you want me to."
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:43 pm
Gliri wished she'd had time to learn more about his family, and actually meet them. She wished she hadn't been so timid before. Shazidi had assured her they would be nice and friendly. Of course, she'd made the same assurances about Muscardini, and those had proven untrue. Nevertheless, just learning that his brother Tajenye was an awful singer and that Miw couldn't hold still made her feel bereft of all those people she would never meet.
Oh, gods. He was too good. Gliri felt like a monster. She would leave him, she knew, and if he felt for her anything like how she felt for him it would break his heart, and yet she wanted to be selfish enough to ask him to be with her, and give her a memory which might even be a legacy.
"Would you?" she whispered. "Would you take me as your mate, even if it was just for today?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:45 pm
He perked his ears, straining to pick up her soft words. Even when the sound had reached his ears it took a moment to process them.
Once he had, he was practically speechless. He stared at her for a long, long moment. She wanted him.. to be her mate? He'd never thought she'd ask. Never even thought to ask her himself. He was stupid. So stupid. He should have asked days ago. Back when he first realized how strongly he felt about her. He should have made it romantic and beautiful, and rememberable. Instead she'd been forced to ask him. His heart clenched at he moved to stand infront of her, stopping her forward motion.
"Of course I'll be your mate. Not just today. Forever." His grin was ear to ear and his eyes held all the sincerity in the world. "I wouldn't want it to be any other way."
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:46 pm
Gliri swallowed. It wasn't how she had imagined it, when she dared to imagine it at all, and it wasn't how she'd told it in the countless stories she'd made up where the endings were happy and every had a mate, but Shazidi's words and acceptance of her, rather than rejection, made for the most perfect scene she could have imagined. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and almost ended up doing both at once.
"Thank you," she whispered, stepping forward once more to tuck her head under his chin. She hadn't known she would fit so well there, but she'd always imagined standing that way with her mate. It was a pose she and her twin had never struck, not in all the time they'd been together, and there was something about the implied protection and belonging that she found irresistible.
"I know it's silly," she said, "but I know I'll never find anyone to care about as I care about you, and. I can pretend this is where it ended, with us together, when I think about it."
She wasn't as good at not thinking about the future as she would have liked to be, which hardly surprised her. No one as cowardly as she was could be so without having a firm grasp of future horrors and disappointments and miseries.
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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 1:46 pm
Shazidi nuzzled into the top of her head, letting out a pleased churring sound at he did so. He licked her ear and enjoyed the way it felt to be mated. To have that other half that he would do anything for and would protect with all his might. It was a feeling he'd never had before Gliri.
"And when Muscar questions you, and our devotion, you think of this moment as hard as you can and know that it wasn't the end. It was only a pause in our story." He wouldn't let himself think it was going to end like this. She might believe it, but he couldn't.
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