"I'm sorry, Farid," I said, gently removing his hand from my shoulder. "But I don't want to leave."
"Why not?" He tried to kiss me, but I turned my face away. Even though I felt tears coming to my eyes. Do you remember?
"I wish you luck," I said, kissing him on the cheek. He still had the most beautiful eyes of any boy I'd ever seen. But now my heart beat so much faster for someone else.
I walked away from Farid, over to my future husband, and looked into his bright fairy-blue eyes, "maybe you could build me one of those, I've always liked the idea of flying."
"Meggie, I love you, why does your father want us to wait to get married?"
I rolled my eyes at him, it seemed as though Doria asked that everyday, "Mo explained this to you already, I'm 15, where we come from people get married when they're considered adults."
"Humph,"
I giggled and kissed him. We were sitting a little ways from the rest of the strolling players who were sitting around a fire, eating, while Battista was singing the last Bluejay song. "So, how is it going with the flying machine?" I asked, that would always distract him from any controversial subject.
"I'm making a lot of progress actually, it's a good thing the Bluejay knows enough about that math stuff to help me with measurements and figuring out how it will fly, it could be ready to start testing in a few months," he was smiling very proudly, I marveled and of course I started smiling back, it's really hard not to.
"That's really cool, maybe when your finished we can fly to see the giants!" I said remembering the giant that had saved the children of Ombra only two years ago from the greedy Milksop, I also remembered Doria, being lifted up the tree in a net, all but crushed, and I thought it was the giant at first, but of course it was from the fight. I shuttered at the thought.
"Are you cold?" Doria asked with a worried expression, immediately wrapping his arms around my shoulders.
"Maybe a little," it wasn't a lie, winter was just about ending, soon the blue fairies would be coming out, right now there's only those annoying rainbow fairies Orpheus had created, they were always trying to pull out my hair for their nests, they pull harder than the blue fairies do.
Battista started singing a newer song, it was about how Violante is ruling Ombra. Since the Adderhead was killed and the Milksop was scared off the throne, she had taken his place and had distributed the silver to the many widows in Ombra, changing her name from Her Ugliness to Her Kindliness. She also took her sons advice and had the strolling players perform at the castle everyday, Jacopo would always come out to watch Dustfinger perform his breathtaking fire eating.
"Oh! I found something in the Wayless Wood today," he reached behind him and pulled out a flower, it was a dark dark blue that seemed to resonate, it looked a lot like a rose, except its petals were much larger and were pointed instead of round, and it was completely dazzling.
"It's beautiful! How'd you find it?" I had never seen a flower anything like it before.
"It doesn't matter," he handed me the flower, "smell it," he was smiling again.
I sniffed it and it smelled as beautiful as it looked, I think I smelled something rosy, and something else I couldn't quite place. I smiled at him. "but seriously, how did you-" but suddenly Doria stood up and walked in front of me in a defensive position, I peered out to see who it was and was shocked.