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Cora hasn't touched me since the day she kissed me weeks back. I have to find a way to regain her remains unimpressed by me and all I've done for her. Truthfully, she has begun to scare me. I will most likely never get what I want from her. If I do, there will be no way to know if I have truly conquered or if she is just using me as a tool. I fear I'm already too far gone, by now, though. I need her. There must be some way to convince her I'm still worth her time.
-Killian Jones
Cora was out looking for food when she found it. The berries they had found that first day had soon grown tasteless from their repetitiveness. They had then decided to try the fish, but the ones they found in the river were all too small for one of them to survive off of, let alone both of them enjoy their meals. They figured there had to be larger fish in the ocean or sea that the river fed into. They both followed the river in opposite directions to see if they could find anything. Cora decided that she had found something far more valuable than another food source.
There was a small hot spring inside a cave beside the river. It was the perfect size and temperature for her to use as both a place to bathe and a place to swim. There was a hole in the roof of the cave that let in the sunlight, and would let in moon light if she ever decided to go at night. There were two accessible openings on either side of the cave the enter and leave from. There were large rocks jutting from the walls that created waterfalls on either side of the spring, frozen in their fall. With a smile, Cora reanimated them, enjoying the sound of the water. It was as though the spring had been made as a natural spa for the queen nature knew was coming.
Pleased by her discovery, she disappeared in a puff of smoke. Hook fell backwards, throwing a rabbit he had been holding into the air, and let out a girlish shriek as Cora appeared before him. Cora caught the rabbit skillfully as it fell and inspected it in an attempt to stifle her laughter.
"Do I scare you, Captain?" he shook his head quickly, slightly nervous.
"No your majesty- I mean Cora" he corrected himself at her glare. "I merely wasn't expecting anyone, frozen in time and everything... I could never be frightened of you, you're too beautiful- Not to say that you aren't powerful and strong and very capable of killing me where I st-" He had started rambling, a thing he had never done before now. He had been quite fidgety since she had kissed him, but this was like nothing she'd seen out of him before and she found it quite funny for a little while before deciding to silence him. He continued his ranting for a moment before realizing that no noise was coming out. The look on his face when he noticed was priceless.
"I came because I found something you might be interested in." She took his hand and teleported back to the spring. He knelt down at the water side and tested it quickly, nodding his head slightly to himself. When he turned back to her, she noticed that he had been trying to speak, and had, as she had done, forgotten about the silencing spell she had placed on him. She flicked her wrist to allow him to speak.
"and due to the fact that there is water movement- how did you do that anyways-, it will be perfectly safe for you to bathe in daily, because the water circulates everything, and-"
"My dear Hook, you needn't tell me all about my own discovery. I plan to use the place well. I wish to know if it would be possible for you to move the bed here today. I know how hard you worked on it." She looked at him expectantly, waiting for his response.
"Of course I can move it here. Only the best for my Queen." Cora smiled at him and gently ran her hand down his arm, resting it on his own hand.
"I really do appreciate it. Perhaps someday you will join me in the water as well as in that bed."