A/N:
Another result of a WritersChallange. This time the theme was 'ThePriceOfLife', and for once I kept the title. So, this story is more a train of thought thingy than a story, and I would recommend you to have read Skin Games (#15) before this one - because of the major spoilers.

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Thanks a lot to Soaring Okami for betaing on this story.

The Price of Life

Humans. They say that we are so free - that we don't need to think of such trivial things as how to keep ourselves alive. We're immortals; there is nothing in this cosmos that can unbalance our place in the world, nothing that can change our path.

Or so we all thought...

She was my daughter, and even though we had our differences, we were still more alike than most humans could ever begin to see. I guess that I, in some way, loved her. To us immortals, 'love' isn't something you usually do. Humans think of the word 'love' as cherishing what you have – knowing that it, someday, will be no more. For us, fairies, this is something that doesn't exist. We are forever, and even though we sometimes form bonds with the mortals, these bonds are like the ones of an owner-toy or master-pet. It is something that is meant to be broken and to fade away with time.

No, 'love' is not something known to fairies.

Still, as I saw Maeve fade away, eaten up by the parasite inside her, something stirred inside me. In the beginning, I thought it was from the shock - the shock of the death of one of my kind - but then my other daughter came to see me. Sarissa spoke of the human mind and life as usual, but this time I felt as though she was doing more than just presenting mere facts. She spoke of the human heart, about its power and of the pain inflicted on it when experiencing loss. We talked for hours and, without me noticing, we'd started to talk about the former Winter Lady.

After the Summer Lady's departure, I sat still for quite some time. Closing my eyes, I remembered all the times I'd been with my Maeve. Thinking through all the thousands of years we had spent together, a heavy feeling grew inside of me. It took some time but I then I realized that I had felt like this before – many, many years ago; in my mortal life...

In some way it made sense. I'd lost something I'd taken for granted; something that I'd once cared for- and, in some ways, still did. Yet, these 'feelings' that I experienced were so different from anything I'd known for a long time, and it made me think about myself and the values I kept high.

I now feel like I've gained new information of great value. However, as always in Fairy, everything needs to be balanced out. The price was also a great one. The price I had to pay, was the price of her life.

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