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 Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:11 am
Faolan held his wife and stroked her hair, ignoring the disdainful looks of passers-by. That's right, there was a pikey and his woman hanging around your beautiful neighborhood. Dear gods, there goes the property values. He sighed and looked down at her. "You gonna be okay? I'll give you a foot rub when we get home and make you some tea. That'll be good, yeah? Then we'll go see Da and beat the snot out of him for not tellin' us sooner . . . or doin' a child marriage instead of a betrothal. Woulda saved us all some heartache."
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:25 am
Ellandra nodded after a few moments. "Y-yes, yes, I'll be all right," she said quietly, wiping at her eyes after a few moments and managing a weak smile for her husband. "Though. . . let's head home now . . . tea sounds wonderful a-after dealing with - with that woman." Ellandra bit her lip and closed her eyes. "I'm so sorry, Faolan. . . she crossed the line m-more than once in there . . ."
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:39 pm
"You think?" Faolan growled, glaring back at the house as he led his wife away. He looked down at the woman after a moment. "What she said about your mother and Da, is that true? Did they betroth us as kids?" He just couldn't get that out of his mind that, if he'd known sooner, he wouldn't have done a lot of the things he had, that they could've been together sooner.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:42 pm
Ellandra shrugged, sighing. "I don't know, Faolan. I do know that she brought me to the carnival that day to meet someone, but I don't remember who or why, and I remember my father being upset about it. . . and. . . I. . ." She trailed off and closed her eyes, a shudder overtaking her small frame. "I kind of think that might be part of - of why my father. . . w-wound up killing her. . ." She shrugged again. "Your father will know more; I think . . . I'd like to go see him before anything else, if that's all right."
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:45 pm
Faolan nodded. He wanted to talk with Keagan as well about all of this. "I wonder how long she'd known we were soulmates. More over, was it an accident we met those years ago or had they planned all along to marry us off?" He mulled over this silently as they walked back to Farstep.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 2:49 pm
"I don't know, but I'd like to find out," Ellandra said quietly, squeezing Faolan's hand. "Either way, it seems like it worked out like Mama might have wanted... I wonder, if my mother had know what - what my father was going to do, do you think she would have taken me and I'd have grown up in Farstep? I still don't really know anything about her, after all. . ."
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:39 pm
Faolan's ears went up as he tried to picture what Elle might be like had she been raised amongst the didikai as he had. He got the stupidest lovesick grin as the mental image came to his mind.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:43 pm
Ellandra saw the look and tugged on his hand a bit, frowning a little. "Now, Faolan, you're not going to suddenly be disappointed with the way I am now, are you? It's not like I can change what I was shaped into."
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:46 pm
The young man looked down at her. "Ellandra, my love, I could never be disappointed in you. You should know me well enough now to know that."
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:53 pm
"I know," Ellandra said soflty, managing to smile for him. "But going back there, seeing her. . . it brings to mind how I was never what she or my father wanted, and all of the things that went into making me what I am now. . ." She didn't mention precisely what those things were; some things just didn't need talked about after all.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:00 pm
"Ay, forget her, Elle. She's a bitter old b***h," Faolan sighed, hugging his wife to his side. "She's probably just pissed that she never had children of her own and now all she's got up there is cobwebs."
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:10 pm
Ellandra tilted her head and shuddered. "I'd hate to think what would have become of any children she might have had," she said, sighing. "I hope we reach home soon, I think we both have a lot of questions for your father."
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:14 pm
Faolan nodded and pointed ahead at the entrance to the fairgrounds. "Home's on the horizon, love." He had more than a few questions himself for Keagan, actually.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:20 pm
Ellandra gae her husband a relieved smile and picked up her pace, practically dragging him back towards the fairgrounds despite her sore feet. She wanted to get back within that wonder, slightly insane world that she knew now had always been meant for her. Then a thought stuck her, and she had to giggle. "I suddenly find myself having an awful idea," she said, looking back over her shoulder at Faolan, not willing to say just what that idea was just yet.
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Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:31 pm
Faolan's eyebrows arched. "What sort of idea?" Well, this was a new side to his normally meek wife. He liked it.
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