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Dreaming of Flowers Chapter Thirty-Eight
Hello again, Child. I didn't think I'd be seeing you so soon, and with company.I was nestled against the roots of my Aldre, the book I had picked up first in the library in my hands. Chepi had come along, with a ball of scratchy looking yarn and a small stool. She was perched on it now, her fingers moving the string around methodically, paying me and my tree no mind."She's okay." She doesn't even look up when I speak out loud to the tree.What ails you?I sigh, and hold the book in front of me, opening it and turning the pages."When Mann, as we've branded them, was first encountered by Sanju, tidings were well."You can read the old tongue. I nod, and continue. The pages are laid out like a journal, starting on the second page."Sanju left the fort at first light on the second day of the full moon with the objective of obtaining medicine for a group of sick children. While she and many others possessed healing, the sickness that taints the children is deep, acquired from an unknown
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I turn the page of the journal I was reading for my little audience. "The Mann returned, but he did not return alone. I fear this may be my last entry, as we are currently under siege. Mann attacked in the night, slitting our fighters' throats as they slept and smothering our babies before they could cry. We were only alerted when one of the Mann stepped on an animal's tail and woke the house he was invading. We all heard their screams as they were killed. Our goddess is angry, angrier than I think I've ever seen her. She has called forth the rage of the forest, and Mann hang from limbs by their necks. She says she's done with Mann, and this world, and plans to create another for us and her new slaves." I stop reading and glance up at Chepi, who looks ashen. "She's on top of the hill now, absorbing energy. Only seventy-nine of us remain, and ten of the invaders. Including the original Mann who stole the blood of our people. She has him with her on top of the hill, last I saw she was i
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"Come, Lady Delilah. Since Erik won't be returning until after dinner, he's instructed me to lead you to the dining hall, so you may eat with the rest of the Alva." We're walking out what seems like a back door of Erik's place, down a small hill with a path, and through a clearing towards a plain looking salt structure. It looked like it was only one room, but a big one.Dining hall sized, I guess.Chepi was carrying a covered tray while walking behind me, with what I assume to be my dinner underneath. My nerves started buzzing at the sound of loud chatter coming from the naked entry way of the building. We were getting closer, and I was feeling very nervous.This was a total lunchroom situation.We finally come to the entry way, and I stop for a moment to take it all in.There are four room length tables in the room, all with dozens of wooden stools around them. There are a few small groups of people congregated around a couple spots, and it reminded me of the same kind of groups I'd
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"You aren't just saying that?" I shake my head. "Thank you, my Lady." Pur presses her hands together and bows her head again."How old are you two?" I ask as I finish off my bread. It really was good."I am eighteen, my sister is seventeen." Pur looks a little bothered by her brother's words. I wonder why. "We used to live in the valley, but our parents sent us here for jobs a few years ago. Pur only has another year though, and then she never has to work again if she doesn't want to.""Hey! Jeri! We caught a boar! Come see how we contain them!" I look to where three men are standing at the entrance of the slightly less crowded dining hall, calling to the boy beside me and waving him over."Sorry, I am a guard in training, I have to go when they call. I'm glad I got to meet you." Jeri springs up then, grabs his tray from his old spot, bows at me once, and then runs away to the men waiting for him.It's just me and Pur now."How long have you two been here?" I ask after a minute of che
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"Chepi." I call, turning in my seat and hurrying towards her. I pause, grab my plate, and drag my servant out of the room with my free hand. "That girl just told me the Alva living here are forced to procreate. Is that true?" I whisper as soon as we're outside the dining hall. The evening is setting in now, the sun has turned the sky a light pink color, and the light is dwindling."Yes, Lady Delilah. I had my child four years ago but chose not to marry." I feel my jaw dropping at the news she so casually drops on me."So, you're saying you have a kid? Where is it? You're always with me and I've never seen a kid." I looked behind her as though it had been following her all this time and I just hadn't noticed."Come, let's head back to Erik's estate." She ushers me away from the dining hall, gently taking my plate as she does."Chepi?" I press as she guides me ahead of her. She was usually so anal about making sure I was always in front; I wonder why she was trying to scurry away from m
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I could hear birds chirping, a bit loudly to be honest.Sun was shining on my face, and there was a sweet smell tickling my senses."My flower..."At the feel of someone's breath on my ear, I was very suddenly awake."What the hell." I gasp when my eyes open and I see Erik is hovering over me in his bed, whole body, face by my ear. I sit up a little, backing up against the headboard quickly, trying to put some distance between me and the gorgeous elf man in front of me. I suck in a sharp breath when he moves forward with me, his gaze never leaving mine.I shake my head as visions of him talking to a group of men as an adult flashes in my sight."What do you want Erik?" I huff, wiping at my eyes. It was too early for a memory slide show right now, and definitely too early for him to be breathing on my neck and whispering in my ear.He backs up a little, finally, and smirks."You've been asleep for fourteen hours. I wanted to see if you were still alive." He moves to the edge of the bed
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I move closer to the water, frowning a little. "Do you have something bubbly?" I ask Erik, hands still on the straps of my nightgown. The water was a little milky looking, but still too see through to be in it naked with Erik in the same room.I jump when he's in front of me suddenly, facing the water and dumping a bottle in. He doesn't look at me when he holds his finger above the bath and starts spinning it. The water moves with his finger, and the bubbles mix and foam."Better?" His eyes dart to mine. I nod, backing up a little, shooing him away. There's a smirk on his face, but he returns to his cart with no comment and turns his back to me. I very quickly let my nightgown drop and sit on the edge of the tub to sink in. I move to sit against the spouts, and so I have a good viewpoint of Erik. He turns after a moment, coming back to the water. He has another bottle of soap in his hands, and he's rolling up his sleeves."I can do it myself." I say quickly, almost standing up out of
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I drip water all over the floor as I walk towards the cart to grab a towel and examine what Erik has brought me. It's a dress, with an attached slip underneath, cream colored and with a lace trim, and a sheer top layer. It had no shoulder straps, and there wasn't a bra either. This felt like a recipe for disaster, but nonetheless, I drop my towel to the ground and start figuring out how to pull the dress over my still slightly wet body.I struggled, huffed and puffed with pulling the double layers over myself, but finally got it right. It was comfortable, much more so than what I'd been wearing. I pulled the hem of the boob area up a little. It wasn't too bad, but I wouldn't be doing any jumping jacks today, that much was for sure.I decide against waiting for Erik to come back for me and make my way out of the bathroom. It's quiet in the hallway, no one is around still. Where were they all? As I walked towards where I thought the kitchen was, I noticed the usual guards weren't even a
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Erik and Larkin talked for another hour. I got bored halfway through and started organizing Erik’s desk. He had glanced at me curiously when I’d begun, but now I think I had mostly faded into the background of this conversation. Erik’s idea was we should go to where the remaining Gud species reside, confront them head on and get this over with. He said he didn’t want to wait around for him to attack, always looking over his shoulder. Maybe I was stereotyping here, but I found it interesting how Larkin argued against doing that. I guess from looking at them, you’d assume Larkin was the brute, the one who wanted to charge in head first, swords drawn, ready to die. Unfortunately for me, it seemed my new husband fit that role more accurately. Erik’s eyes were alight with passion and anger as he spoke of his plan to sneak onto their land. Then Larkin would point out the only idea Erik even has on what their territory looks like is based on a fifteen year old sketch of a map his father h
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“All good?” Erik asks as we walk inside and join him again. He really had been waiting close by; just past the entry way, standing there like he was a guard himself. As soon as I turned the corner, he had gently grabbed my shoulder and pulled me back against his side, like me not being there had been physically paining him. More like letting me talk to the one man who amounted as my ex, but I was trying not to focus on all the awkward tension rolling between the three of us.“Yup.” I nod and smile up at him, standing on tiptoes to press a kiss to his cheek. He seemed to visibly relax, which was kind of cute. “He wants all of us to talk about the Gud now though.” I say, tilting my head to where Larkin was lingering behind us, awkwardly looking anywhere but at us.Erik nods. “Yes, yes we should. I would go as far to say it’s impossible to think he’s not hunting you.” His hand that had moved to wrap around my waist as he guided us all somewhere tightened a little at his words. I could te
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“I came down here for a reason other than breaking up your cat fight.” Erik calls after me as I walk away from him and back towards the main estate. “Someone is here for you.” I stop then, my heart jumping. “Who?” I ask, not turning to look at him yet. He’s quiet for a moment, then says, “Larkin. He wants to talk to you about Bacudal’s death.” I nod, and take a deep breath. “Okay, take me to him.” Erik walks beside me as we head towards the main estate together now. We don’t say anything at first, then I ask, “how did he… seem?” I glance at Erik.He sighs. “Tense. Angry, impatient. I worry another war with the Gud species over this.” I furrow my brow. Another? “Would you like me to remain with you while you talk?” He asks, looking down at me. I shake my head a little. “I feel like you being there won’t help his irritation any.” “Very well. I will remain close by, just in case he attempts to take you back with him again.” I can hear the edge in Erik’s voice when he talks about L
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"Can you believe her?” I huff as soon as Reni is out of earshot, turning to look at Erik. “I’m not entirely sure what just happened.” Erik says, looking at me carefully, like he was trying not to piss me off more. Smart man. “Your favorite and most trusted guard wants me to make my dragons into slaves, like she does to everyone else around here.” I say, gesturing around at nothing in particular. “I see.” Erik nods a little, looking up to where the dragons are now flying in a circle above me. They had come over when the tension had started between me and Reni. I almost wondered if they would’ve done anything had she returned my attack. “She was insulting me, implying I couldn’t handle my dragons properly, and just being a plain bitch.” I finish, crossing my arms angrily at the memory.“Perhaps you misunderstood what she was trying to get at…” he says, and I narrow my eyes at him. I take back what I said before. He wasn’t a smart man, he was a very dumb one. “Seriously? You’re goin
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“Your dragons are proving to be quite the challenge for everyone.” Reni says to me as she closes the distance between us. She has her arms crossed, making her forearms look more defined, and is staring down at me like a kid looking at an ant under a looking glass. I nod a little, looking back up to the three dragons, who are still bickering playfully in the air above us.“Do you have any plans for them?” She continues, still watching me. I have no idea why her words make me prickle a little, but they sure do. Maybe it’s the way she said it, the way she looked up at my dragons like they were some prize. Or maybe it was because I knew for a fact she was perfectly okay with branding people as slaves. Keeping in mind Bacudal’s warning about people wanting to use dragons for their own purposes, her words made me a bit defensive. “No.” Is all I say, meeting her gaze. Even though I had only said one word, she seemed to pick up on my hostility, because her brow raises and she looks a littl
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“Lady Delilah, did you enjoy your time with your new husband?” I was back in Erik and I’s room now, getting changed into something more practical. I’d been wearing loose, mostly see through dresses during my time with Erik. I’m sure that was his choice, but it wasn’t exactly appropriate attire for everyday life.It was still early in the day when Erik and I made it back, maybe noon, so I planned on doing something today. At the very least, I wanted to see my dragons. Honestly I was a bit surprised when they didn’t crash into me on my walk up here. I’d been keeping an eye out, bracing myself almost constantly. I was weirdly disappointed when I made it to the main estate without any dragons attacking me. I turn to look at Chepi, and as soon as I see her, guilt floods me. Her hair was frazzled and unbrushed, she had lines under her eyes, and despite the smile on her face, I could tell she was overworked and tired. “Hey, babe.” I say in a concerned tone. “You look like you need a break
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The days after Erik and I’s wedding were mostly filled with us glued to one another, touching, kissing, talking and laughing. I couldn’t keep my hands off him now that I’d had a taste, and he was no different. I wasn’t even embarrassed to say, we had learned every inch of each other’s bodies in the five days we spent locked up together. I’m not even sure we came up for air sometimes.I would’ve stayed locked up in that cabin with him forever, because I knew as soon as we stepped out, it would be back to work. He’d get super busy, especially since he’d been gone for a minute now, and I would get wrapped up with my dragons, trying to uncloak myself, and getting used to this new life I was about to start living.We may not get another minute alone like this for a while.Eventually though, our five days were up, and we left the little house Erik had built for us, and made our way back to the main estate. Erik was already ticking off the things he needed to do, and I was walking beside
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Despite my inexpierence, something about the nervous way Erik is looking at me makes me feel more bold than I ever thought I could be. I sit up on the edge of the bed and grab the back of his hair, gently pulling him down so I can whisper in his ear, “are you going to make love to me now?” I ask him softly. He grunts, and I feel his hands moving to push my mouth against his own, my words forcing him into action. I feel him moving to pick me up by the ass and move me to the center of the bed so he could hover over me. “I can't believe you are my wife.” He mutters, running a finger along the metal plates on my breast. His finger moves up the hem of the see through part of my dress above my boobs, and I gasp when I feel him dig through the material and start tearing it down the middle. “What are-” His hand over my mouth forced me to stop talking. “I want to see all of you, my flower. I want to lick you, everywhere.” I shudder into his arms, white hot pleasure shooting all the way dow
