You know, I didn't quite understand at first why I felt so upset at Loki's existence. Perhaps I just thought I would be the only summon creature in her life. Once, I dreamt that we were the only people in existence. It was weird, but strangely... comforting.
I knew, I understood, why everything had to change. But I didn't think it through. I thought I could save her, somehow, and she would be safe and leave and I would be freed from these binding emotions.
But she was stubborn, she was always so stubborn, I knew inside she would fight. I just never foresaw Loki, Aera's guardian beast.
Or Gabriel, or Nina... or Gedharm.
I like to think that it was by the slightest margin that I lost. But truthfully I doubt I could have ever won Aera's heart. Her pure sweet heart, full of dreams and hopes and wonder.
I was both proud and betrayed when Aera fought. She was no longer the crybaby I knew as a child, and for that I was glad. She appeared, in all rights, to have moved on from me. And that was scary. Aera and Lynn were the two people my life revolved around. They were my sun.
Which, I suppose, is why my heart is breaking so to see both of them standing with others, without need for myself.
Aera once said Loki had made a stray comment about Lynn and Blaire. She didn't believe him, of course. Which, it turns out, she should have. The two made a surprisingly... good couple. Of course, that also leads to twice the embarrassing situations.
Aera... I'm glad she is happy. Even Loki can see she and Gabriel plainly pining after each other, yet she always denies it. Loki tends to deny it as well, out of sympathy, he says. Mostly he denies it out of wishful thinking.
Orin is always giving Gabriel the look. The look which means Stay Away From My Sister Who I Definitely Do Not Like™.
..."Ryouga!"
"Give me a minute, Aera!"
Just a minute. Let me fester for just a little longer.