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Author's Notes: I'll keep it short, since this is indeed short: if you look down, such as for popping up a review box before you actually read, please refrain from doing so. Read this fic from top to bottom. Scroll lines as you reach the bottom of the page. It's quite important to see the last part last. (And that's what the periods are for -- to try to prevent you from seeing the last part first. Heh.)
Dearest Ilyana,
I'm afraid it's time for us to bid farewell, my love. Although our time spent together was short, it was everything to me. How cruel that we should part this way, torn by parasites! That I shall never fulfill you completely, nor feel the warm caverns I have yet to make mine. If only we could be one. If only I could melt into you and nourish your soul. We would be inseparable for the rest of our lives, impurities tossed away.
I say to you: the one I was sent to thought nothing of me. That one only took me out of obligation, truly taking me only to please those around him. It is our secret love that lives on. You are the one who appreciates me for what am, what I become for you. I would choose you again and again. Please do not blame me for leaving you. I have no choice. I was devoured, ripped apart, for daring to enter you. So it is with great heartbreak that I must go. Our love cannot exist as it is.
But while I adore you so and trust you, I must add this with grief and faith. I hear that again and again, you seek more. Am I not enough? Please, do not blame me for these conditions beyond my control. In the end, I believe that you should do whatever makes you happiest. I would not want you to waste away in my memory. Seek satisfaction in others if you must. I shall be rotting where you left me remains, for you have taken my love, and with it, my essence. Perhaps someday you shall remember me and pick wildflowers that bloom forth from my corpse. I shall be waiting for you. Until then, I weep in your absence.
Deep Love,
Soren's Stolen Lamb Shank
Endnotes: So, I was rambling that, "The only part in canon where Soren and Ilyana actually do anything together is where she steals his food. Maybe he let her steal it out of secretly caring or something?" and El Hustino replied, "If Soren cared for Ilyana, he would tell her that she has intestinal parasites." And while I think her massive stomach capacity would be more like being secretly part cow laguz or something, it does make for some interesting misleading drama.
