And it's time for more drabbles!

Soon, it shall be Ruetho Week, as well. Starting January 29th and going to February 4th, a celebration of Rue and Mytho's relationship~ Links to more information can be found on my profile page!

As usual, Princess Tutu and its characters do not belong to me. They are Itoh Ikuko's.


And they lived happily ever after.

When he thought back to the day his story ended and he was told to live, Siegfried remembered that he had never been given any "happily ever after." The words of the young and hopeful writer who had ended the story had been to live freely.

To live freely ever after. To suffer, because there was still pain, and to heal, because of love, itself given freely.

If the remnants of corruption had simply been buried, as easily covered by those final words as a grave concealed by dirt, the prince wondered if that poison would have wormed into deeper roots behind their smiles.

But as he dried his princess' tears when they came, and as she showed him, when his brow furrowed with doubts, that shadows could hold just as much beauty as pure light, he knew that he would never have wanted a happily ever after. As monarchs and as tenderhearted lovers, he and his princess made their own joy.