maiden

Hasn't there always been a moon?""Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue...

The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.

What?__ucien laughed. __es__ll those female faeries around you were females for Tamlin to pick. It__ an honor to be chosen, but it__ his instincts that select her.___ut you were there__nd other male faeries._ My face burned so hot that I began sweating. That was why those three horrible faeries had been there__nd they__ thought that just by my presence, I was happy to comply with their plans.__h._ Lucien chuckled. __ell, Tam__ not the only one who gets to perform the rite tonight. Once he makes his choice, we__e free to mingle. Though it__ not the Great Rite, our own dalliances tonight will help the land, too._ He shrugged off that invisible hand a second time, and his eyes fell upon the hills. __ou__e lucky I found you when I did, though,_ he said. __ecause he would have smelled you, and claimed you, but it wouldn__ have been Tamlin who brought you into that cave._ His eyes met mine, and a chill went over me. __nd I don__ think you would have liked it. Tonight is not for lovemaking.

The River SwishDeftly maneuvered through the dark green abyss ~The wooden raft seemed in tune with this ~Canorous rush of theriver swish....

Do not think me a maiden who needs saving from a dragon. I am the dragon, and I will set the world aflame.

But it's not healthy!_ replied the Hag. __ mortal and a god sharing the same flesh?___ou know, this isn't why we're here. I can get abuse pretty much wherever.___eah,_ sighed the Maid, __ut I bet a tenner I can make you cry in half a minute.