Long had he pondered this moment since his meeting with his Father.
Long had he pondered this idea since his heart was torn from him when the War took it and them.
And now, it had come. Would it happen? Would she accept a broken man?... a crazed creature?... a dangerous dragon?...
~~~~~
The night passed almost in a blur, up until that moment when it came. A present Kitty offered, and a present was offered to her.
His mind once again filled with the images and troubles he had been part of and cause of in the past. His past. Their past. There would be no going back once the words were spoken. Did he want to see her leave as the others had? Would she leave? He had to know.
?He reached up, and caught her hands, holding them between his. His eyes came up to look into hers, looking for an answer before it was given.
?A dream was lost... the dreamer woke? but that dreamer awakened a dream not dreamt? the dreamer's gone, but the dream remains? not the same as the first, but better and more powerful than the last? so now the question is, will the dream remain??
His words were cryptic and she tilted her head, her brow furrowed in obviously concentration as she watched him, trying to make sense of his words.
His eyes moved over Kitty, watching her body language, reading the words that were not spoken, but it wasn?t enough. He felt he needed to explain a bit more.
?Called, once, harmony in the midst of chaos. I would say that is true, but for the wrong one it was directed.?
Then her words came, and in them was the answer sought. ?I told you before, I will never leave you unless you wished it.?
A smile came to his lips and he looked down to their hands again, and lifted his just barely from hers, a flash and flare of dark and light came before he closed his hand over hers again.
?I do not wish it.?
In that moment, within their hands rested his heart, and he had given it to Kitty, embodied in a silver dragon, eating it?s own tail, and it?s scales embossed with dark sapphires, yet always shifting in their dark color and hue.
She blinked, then managed to turn her hand around to look at her palm ever so carefully.
His words came softly. ?I give my gift, if it is a gift you will have.?
She just stared into her hand. Then words came from her lips in a language she didn?t know. ?Ala o ashtath vath A thath o ala?? (are you asking what I think you are?)
?A ash.? (I am.) The statement was soft and clear.
Kitty's hand closed over the object and she nodded, tackling him with a kiss that only Helstons can give. He found himself wrapping her in his arm, returning that kiss.
~~~~~
Words and sights were lost to him following that moment. He moved through motions, mouthed words, words in common and his own, but his mind was elsewhere, and in that elsewhere, he hoped that the beauty and peace would stay.
Long had he pondered this idea since his heart was torn from him when the War took it and them.
And now, it had come. Would it happen? Would she accept a broken man?... a crazed creature?... a dangerous dragon?...
~~~~~
The night passed almost in a blur, up until that moment when it came. A present Kitty offered, and a present was offered to her.
His mind once again filled with the images and troubles he had been part of and cause of in the past. His past. Their past. There would be no going back once the words were spoken. Did he want to see her leave as the others had? Would she leave? He had to know.
?He reached up, and caught her hands, holding them between his. His eyes came up to look into hers, looking for an answer before it was given.
?A dream was lost... the dreamer woke? but that dreamer awakened a dream not dreamt? the dreamer's gone, but the dream remains? not the same as the first, but better and more powerful than the last? so now the question is, will the dream remain??
His words were cryptic and she tilted her head, her brow furrowed in obviously concentration as she watched him, trying to make sense of his words.
His eyes moved over Kitty, watching her body language, reading the words that were not spoken, but it wasn?t enough. He felt he needed to explain a bit more.
?Called, once, harmony in the midst of chaos. I would say that is true, but for the wrong one it was directed.?
Then her words came, and in them was the answer sought. ?I told you before, I will never leave you unless you wished it.?
A smile came to his lips and he looked down to their hands again, and lifted his just barely from hers, a flash and flare of dark and light came before he closed his hand over hers again.
?I do not wish it.?
In that moment, within their hands rested his heart, and he had given it to Kitty, embodied in a silver dragon, eating it?s own tail, and it?s scales embossed with dark sapphires, yet always shifting in their dark color and hue.
She blinked, then managed to turn her hand around to look at her palm ever so carefully.
His words came softly. ?I give my gift, if it is a gift you will have.?
She just stared into her hand. Then words came from her lips in a language she didn?t know. ?Ala o ashtath vath A thath o ala?? (are you asking what I think you are?)
?A ash.? (I am.) The statement was soft and clear.
Kitty's hand closed over the object and she nodded, tackling him with a kiss that only Helstons can give. He found himself wrapping her in his arm, returning that kiss.
~~~~~
Words and sights were lost to him following that moment. He moved through motions, mouthed words, words in common and his own, but his mind was elsewhere, and in that elsewhere, he hoped that the beauty and peace would stay.