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Chapter Thirty
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2025-02-12 12:19:39
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Dreaming of Flowers Chapter Thirty-One
I open my eyes when my desperate question is only greeted by the night's silence, peering up at the moon. I reach my hands down and grab handful of grass, bringing them up to pull them apart in my hands. Tears sting at my eyes for no reason."Dammit." I mutter as tears start dripping from my eyes without my consent. Why was I here? Why had I left my home, and everything I had, for this place? So far, I'd just been disappointed. I almost wish Larkin had never let me remember him. Ignorance is bliss, right?I wipe at my eyes with one hand and then return it to the grass to pull absentmindedly at it. I wonder what my mom is doing right now, and if she misses me. I wonder what happened to my car, and if anyone at work noticed when I didn't show up. I hope my dog doesn't miss me too much.I wonder if I'll ever get to go home again.I sigh and move to stand up. But I hesitate when my eyes catch a splotch of color on the ground under my hands that hadn't been there when I sat down.There we
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"My Lady!" My lady? Who the hell is calling me my lady now? And why are they yelling?I pry open my eyes, blocking the sunlight from them as I do so. I groan, looking up to meet gazes with what appears to be another servant woman. She wears the same dress as the others, and the same apron. She's staring down at me in horror, shock clear on her face. Her hair is almost yellow in color, pulled back into a tight bun that hung low on her head. Her eyes are a pale brown color with long, lovely lashes surrounding them."Why are you on the floor? Did you and Erik have a fight?" She quickly sits down on knees, laying down flat so her hands stretch towards me. She looks up at me with her face only."What are you doing right now?" I ask, scrunching up my whole face. It was too early to beat around the bush."I shouldn't stand above you. It would look bad." I shake my head a little, rubbing at my still tired eyes. I am definitely not used to this weird master-servant relationship all the helpers
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"I guess I need to learn more about what it means to be fated." I feel his hand on my lower back, and I know I'm growing weak. I force myself to blink and break eye contact, so I don't lose consciousness again."Don't worry, we'll work on your magic, so you won't always get so weak when we connect." He moves his hand from my lower back once I'm stable again."Speaking of magic." I step away from him a little. "Something happened last night, when I was outside.""When were you outside? The guards said you were just wondering-" he stops when I turn to glare at him. He kind of opens and closes his mouth, avoiding looking at me for a second before shooting me a sheepish grin. I roll my eyes but turn back towards the window. So, he knew I was lost last night. He was probably the reason none of the many guards I'd walked by offered to help. How petty."Anyways." I shoot him a look and stop in front of the window, bending to look down and gasping in excitement at what I see. "I knew I wasn't
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"Do you have any scents you prefer?" Chepi asks as I start peeling off my clothes to get into the bath. She graciously turned her back then to clink through the bottles of soaps and other liquids."No, I trust your judgment." I step into the water, lowering myself in quickly and perching on the provided ledge underneath."Very well, My lady." I sink into the water up to my nose, watching Chepi from behind the steam. She plucked vials of oil off a cart and made her way to the still running square shaped taps behind me. She empties a pink colored one into one stream of water, then crawls to another and adds a cream-colored vial. The water immediately starts smelling of honey suckles and vanilla. I sigh, and close my eyes for a second, opening them again when I hear her rummaging about some more.She grabs a fabric bag off the cart and approaches again. She kneels down and gently starts sprinkling the dried daisy petals into the bath, keeping her eyes on the water the entire time. She ri
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Twenty minutes later, I'm dressed in basically the same clothes as yesterday, just clean ones, and leading Chepi towards a supposed library."Left." She whispers behind me as we come to a fork in the hallways."Delilah!" I turn around at the sudden sound of a familiar voice. Larkin has appeared down the hall from us, where I think the other bedrooms are. I watch as he jogs towards us, quickly closing the distance. "Larkin." I say, smiling up a little at him when he stops in front of us. Yeah, he irritated me. But he was hard to stay mad at, and there was no point in being mean to him. I didn't know what was going to happen with us, but I had a feeling we'd both end up hurt as it was. I didn't feel like I needed to rub dirt in the wound by rehashing his mistakes over and over again. "I had no idea if you were still here or not." His lips lift up in a smile and he squats down so we can make eye contact. I back up a little nervously when he ends up only a few inches away from me. Too ma
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"What the hell are you talking about right now, Chepi? You're confusing me." I ask, my heart racing at what she just told me. What is a Gudinna? What did it have to do with me, and why could I read this alleged dead language? It just looked like English to me. Normal words I had been reading my entire life."Lady Delilah, you asked me why I held you in a higher regard than I did Erik. My inviting you here was so I could prove to both you and myself why that is. I have a very strong suspicion that you are-""Chepi." We both jump at the sudden sound of Erik's voice. I look where he is standing in the entry way, glaring at my servant. My heart is racing; I feel like I've been caught with my hand in the cookie jar.She bows to him, and backs out of the room quickly, all while he watches her leave."Why did she leave? What was she about to say?" I shake the book at Erik, emphasizing my point. "Why did she say no one else can read this? You can, right?" I thrust it at him. Erik sighs, and t
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"What am I supposed to do with all of this?" I ask as Erik returns to his seat in the corner with me cradled in his arms. He turns me so I straddle him, both our chests pressed together and with my face buried in his shoulder. I was probably being a little dramatic, but it kind of felt good to let it out for once and not hold back my reaction. I wasn't exactly sure why I felt comfortable doing that around Erik, but here I was, crying like a baby in his arms. I had to keep reminding myself I'd only known him for a couple of days; this level of comfort wasn't normal. "Please don't weep." He whispers as he strokes my hair softly. "It makes me feel things I didn't know I could feel anymore." I sniff, and back up a little.Our eyes meet, and more memories pour in from him. A woman, tall and beautiful with hair the same color as Erik's, with deep purple eyes and clear perfect skin, was shoving him into what looked like a cupboard. Tears were bubbling in his eyes, and he was saying somethin
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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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Dreaming of Flowers Chapter Seventy-Nine
"Oh." I sigh as I feel his fingers moving my panties to the side as he begins his mission of making me cum. "Ooooh." I breathe out heavily as I feel his tongue on my wet folds. "Oh what are you doing?" I call out as he slips a finger in as he continues licking. He laughs, I can feel it, and wraps his lips around my aching spot, and sucks a little. I arch, and one of his hands shoots up to firmly push me by my stomach back onto the table. His push was firm, like a reminder of who was in charge right now."I told you." He teases and he pushes in another finger."Holy crap." I breathe. His hand moves from where it'd been holding me down, and I feel it come in between me and his tongue for a moment before it reaches back up and starts running over my nipple. I shudder and arch again, but he doesn't push me back this time. Just sucks on my spot and pulls his fingers out slightly, where he knows it'll make me come. I can feel my thighs clenching around his head, my body writhing against the
Dreaming of Flowers Chapter Seventy-Eight
He reaches into his pants pocket and pulls out a small box, but doesn't open it yet."Deliah, I've only actually known you for a handful of days. But I've seen inside your mind, I've seen what kind of person you are. I've seen how you think and act when no one is around, and I love that about you." He swallows thickly. "And more than that, I love what I see in front of me, right now. A strong woman, figuring herself out, taking control of herself and her life. I am so enamored by you, Delilah." He opens the box then, and I suck in a breath at the gorgeous ring that rests inside."A ring?" I whisper."I did some research, and found this was the typical way Mann proposed marriage. You already wear the anklet of my people, so I thought I'd go this route next." He smiles, picking it up out of the box and holding it out to me. He looks at me seriously again."Delilah, I love you. I know that. I want to be with you, for as long as there is breath in my lungs. I want to watch you change into
Dreaming of Flowers Chapter Seventy-Seven
Erik was going to ask me to marry him. And if I said no, that was it for us. I'd have to watch him marry another woman. I'd be his side hoe if I ever wanted anything to do with him again. And I couldn't deny, I wanted "something" to do with him. I wish we had time to do things a little... slower. That much was for sure. I knew my mom would be pissed that I was even considering marrying this man, but the thought of him with someone else made a ball of furious rage form in my chest. I swallow as we stop in front of a high entry way covered by hanging flowers."Have fun, Lady Delilah." I smile at Chepi and walk through the flowers.Here we go.The greenhouse was probably twenty feet by twenty feet, with rounded edges rather than squared like the rest of the rooms. The ceiling was replaced with a crisscrossing wood pattern, no glass though, just vines and flowers and moss climbing over the wood. I wondered if it'd form a natural roof one day. The sides of the room have rows of seedlings
Dreaming of Flowers Chapter Seventy-Six
"What are we doing today, Lady Delilah?"It was rhe next day. I spent the night alone, and in my own head luckily. I'm sitting in the tub currently, my favorite spot in the house."Will I get to see Erik tonight?" I whine. I was bored without him. I had hung out in the kitchen and helped make and clean up dinner yesterday and hadn't finished until it was dark out. I had enjoyed talking to the cooks, including Pur who was baking bread as she said she always did."Yes, Lady Delilah. And don't forget what else is happening tonight?" She leans towards me in the tub, handing me a small tub of scrubby looking stuff. I nod, holding a smile back."What if you're wrong though and I'm getting excited for nothing?" I scoop out the rough paste and bring my leg up out of the water. Chepi said she was going to shave my legs, which was fine, because they needed it. So, I was exfoliating first."I am not wrong. He told me. I wasn't really supposed to tell you, but my loyalty lies with you, not Erik.
Dreaming of Flowers Chapter Seventy-Five
"You saw, yes?" I nod, walking closer to the men. "Would you like to try?" I flick my eyes up to him quickly then, laughing a little. "I'm serious." He certainly looks it. I squat down in front of the balancing men without answering him, looking at the streams of light connecting their fingers to the earth below them. This man's light was green colored, this one was light blue."It goes with the elements they can control." Erik has squatted down with me. "Tye here," he pokes the man with the blue light coming from his finger, "can manipulate ice. He channels it from the core of the world, and therefore, levitates." I tilt my head a little at the floating man. "Want to try?" He asks again."I can't do that." I point to the men. Erik laughs."Don't be silly. I don't want you to do that." He stands, and I follow suit. "Men." Erik booms. Their eyes open, and they listen, still floating. "If any of you drop my goddess, you will be fed to the boars for dinner." he grins then, crossing his a
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As we come close to the main building, I can hear voices and yelling. Thudding, and oofing."They're training." Chepi tells me as we round the corner into the empty grassy area in front of the huge building.The first thing that catches my attention, is a group of twenty or so Alva paired off, sparring against each other. Reni is walking in-between the pairs, making comments too quiet for me to hear, correcting foot placement and suggesting moves as she does. They're in the front of building, out in the open. Looking between them, I can see a large entry way leading into another training area."Erik is in there." I look away from where I'd been trying to see into the building, and meet eyes with Reni, who is looking at me now and pointing behind her. I nod a little, giving her an awkward thumbs up. She tilts her head to the side a little, and then returns to telling her men how to better beat each other up. Chepi and I make our way around the men, finally slipping into the building.
Dreaming of Flowers Chapter Seventy-Three
Hello, Child. I sigh in happiness as I finally lay on the roots of my Alder almost an hour later. Chepi had brought her stool and her knitting again and was focused on it.But the conversation I wanted to have with my Alder was extra private today.I have something I want to ask you. I think, feeling a little silly.A secret from this woman you claim to trust. I nod against its roots. Ask away, child.Do you know anything about the Gud species? I turn away from Chepi and curl into a ball, closing my eyes and listening to the tree's words in my head.The Gud species is, as you suspect, descended from the original God, Forradd, who had great powers. He could change forms, manipulate the earth, and even time itself. Now Forradd was desperately in love with Sanju, the original goddess.I laugh a little. It kind of seemed like everyone's problems could be chalked up to loving someone.Pay attention. Sanju was originally a normal Alva, which is why she's depicted as having pointed ears, and
Dreaming of Flowers Chapter Seventy-Two
I sit up quickly, inhaling air into my lungs and looking around wildly.I was back in Erik's bed. But it was morning now, sun was streaming in through the window. I could hear wind chimes outside and smell bread baking somewhere. It felt early, but I remember it had been dark in my dream. I had lost a few hours.I rub my eyes, thinking about last night.That was the first time I had traveled through a dream since I came here. And this time no one could see me. The last time I was very much visible and interacted with people and talked. This time it was like I wasn't even there.The Gud species.I needed to find a way to find out about them. They seemed to be important. Honestly, the word kind of sounded like "God," and I wondered if they were the male version of the Gudinna species. Erik had said it was a line of women that descended from the original goddess, so with that in mind, was there a line of men that came from the original god? Was there an original god? I had way too many q
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Soft footsteps approach my sleeping form in the window. My head leaned against the frame, the book I had made it halfway through open on my lap. The sun had set hours ago, the moon was but a hunk in the sky now, but still shone brightly on my sleeping figure."Sweet flower..." Erik approaches me, gently wrapping a strand of my hair around his finger when he does.He takes the book, closes it, and sets it on the ground beside the window. He scoops me up gently in his arms and carries me to his bed, where he brushes aside the curtain and crawls in with me in his arms.He sets me down like I'm made of glass and brushes my hair away from my face."Sleep well, my goddess." My heart tugs as he leaves, instead of curling up with me like I wanted him to.Where was he going?I could feel myself following him out of his room, but my body remained in his bed.I was dreaming, I knew that now. This wasn't like before, though. I drifted all through his house and outside, where he turned right and
