The fire crackled and burned. It was enticing figure to some creatures, it meant warmth and safety. Yet these were the same creatures that lived to kill one another. They do have a few things backwards.
She stared at the fire, not because it was mesmerizing but because she was remembering. It was February again, February 29. At least, that was what some obscure observation had brought to the forefront of her conscious this morning, but considering the two worlds didn't run parallel there could be no real way to know if the date was February 29th. All she knew was that blood moon had come again for the fourth year and tonight was an extra night of the moon's red face. Of course, she had been thinking of all the ways to check if it really was the 29th and stopped when she realized how ridiculous her methods had become.
She was avoiding it. Like the plague.
A giggle escaped her, a giggle, over that phrase. Of course there never was such thing as The Plague in this world. No, on this land one couldn't avoid something like the Plague, simply because they had never had one.
It's amazing how much meaning come from experience instead of words.
She could see the words on the page. She had read them many a night. Many a day she had flipped though her memory and seen them in the sun light anew. They never held any other meaning for her except the one. The one she had experienced. The one that tore her heart with every breath she drew.
"Evening, stranger."
She could hear armor and swords behind her, but at the moment she didn't care about anything.
Her eyes never left the fire, "evening." She heard the intruder shift.
"We were riding our last patrol when we were surprised by fire light." He walked around so he could face her, "enjoying the land?"
She knew there had always been something backwards to these creatures.
"If I was enjoying the land, why am I destroying it? Or does one follow the other?"
"Calm, lady, calm. Just trying to be polite."
"I'll be off your land come morning. Leave me to brood tonight."
"Well, we can't leave you unprotecte…"
"And you can take your royal we when you go."
