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Ohhh... this is the end! I'm so sad about that! I'll probably doing some more some time soon, but that could be anywhere from 5 months to a year or more because whelp, I'm pretty busy! So, sorry about that. But for the mean time, enjoy!
050. Eyes
Innocence
It was the depths of night when I finally got to bed. I'd been working all (most of the) day, and it was late when I got to bed - past midnight at least. It was a fair climb to my tower too - through the main castle, up the back stairs, across a gallery, and up to my tower, opposite from Sabin's... And any future children's. That wasn't something I really wanted to think about, especially when I was this tired. But I was getting old, for a king, and the pressure on marriage was increasing. All the noble women though, they were fun to flirt with, but rarely to pursue. They were like some paintings: nice to look at, but you wouldn't want to see them everyday.
When I finally clambered into bed, just about making it into my sleeping clothes, I collapsed into bed, and fell into a deeper sleep than if had in weeks. I can't remember much from that night, but I can remember seeing a figure, alone in the tempestuous snow of the North, in the middle if the crisp night, the starts shining down from above through the thin, wispy clouds. It was a woman, I realised after a while, a thin woman - young, with barely anything there. I knew that I was dreaming however, when I caught sight of her hair - the mint green locks, curling down her back, tied up messily and nestled against her head, with some framing her face either side. Her skin was cool, pale and ethereal - white, with a slight glow to it; her nose was red in the cold, and he equally red lips issued clouds when she spoke. But her eyes, her eyes were what struck me. The amethyst hue drew me in, and the swirls of blue within them made them shine like the most precious jewel I'd ever seen. Every time she shifted even slightly, her iridescent eyes shifted in their colour every so slightly, but remained within the range of blue to amethyst. They looked like fairy's eyes.
I awoke before I could see anything else, but I knew then, that if I were to marry - it would be to her.
I was certain when, three days later, she appeared in my throne room, tailing uncertainly behind Locke. I forced myself to focus on the thief, but my thoughts and eyes shifted every time to the girl next to him. She struck me as rather a sprite-like figure; a modern day fairy, if you will. Her hair was slightly softer looking and more of a grey-mint green than the vivid green I remembered, but I preferred her in person. But I couldn't see her eyes, she was looking down at the floor - her whole posture was downcast and afraid; she appeared as though she'd just had her entire life taken from her.
It turns out that she had - more than I'd expected.
I finally saw her eyes not long after, and they were exactly as I'd remembered - amethyst and blue in colour, and shimmering like a butterfly's wings. She was broken though, in spirit, although she was gradually recovering. She reminded me of a mouse, or a doll - you had to be careful, lest you frighten her and she would retreat into herself. Her eyes would grow wide and soft then, and the colour would shine more brightly blue. But when she was angry, the purple came forth more than ever in her eyes - they would narrow slightly, and she'd pout and puff her cheeks out a bit. Locke loved to wind her up, the two were like brother and sister by then, and she certainly looked beautiful, even when angry. There was a certain beauty in anger, of how inhibitions were thrown out the window and all emotion came tumbling to the surface, no matter the form.
By the time we reached Narshe, she was beginning to rebuild her life - to rebuild herself. But that was about to be shattered, for now at least. She cried out as she began to react to the frozen Esper, her whole body glowing as she looked around in furious panic, eyes growing large and worried. I tried to call to her, to reach out, but it was no use - she was consumed by the mysterious form. I remember a brilliant flash of the bright light, before I could see again - and she was not there. In it's place, was an Esper, hovering just a step off the ground. It had a long, hair-like mane and fur of pure powder pink, soft as anything; purple hued lips and an angled face, with iridescent blue-amethyst eyes... Fairy's Eyes... Terra's eyes. I realised it was Terra, and before I could stop myself, I called out to her. She looked at me, and I saw the confusion in her eyes, only to be mirrored by mine. She was worried and panicked, and before I could say anything she shot off, like an arrow across the night sky.
It was the second time I saw her as an Esper, the third time she'd transformed in front of us all, that I truly understood. She stood there, amongst the children whom she cared for, and said in a clear voice that she'd join us. I was happy - overjoyed at that. I never took back what I decided the night that I saw her in my dream, and I didn't intend to now. She looked over at me, with the same ingenuous eyes that I'd come to know - to love, even. I realised that no matter the form, Terra was Terra. She always had the same ingenuous eyes that showed her softness, her innocence in the blue-amethyst, butterfly-wing like eyes.
The tower across from me in my Sand Castle no longer holds trepidation for me; it holds hope instead. Terra's eyes have never failed to make me speechless with their beauty, with the captivating iridescence and the swirling blue and amethyst hue. I've had many a dream about her since that first dream, and throughout them all, her eyes have never changed - they've just captivated me for years. To think that she lies next to me today, all because of a dream I had where her eyes entranced me before I even knew her, amazes me everyday I see her.
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