A/N: Okay, I'm really nice and decided to put this up, like, a week early. You're welcome. :) Thanks to my reviewers: xxBeautiful Redemptionxx, Naynay1130, xxxthe-girl-who-was-on-firexxx, and Mystic Sorrow.

Also, this is a 380-word chapter. But epilogues are supposed to be shorter, right?

I smile and watch my children play in front of our modest house deep in the wyldwood. Ash and I built it - using a fair amount of glamour as an aid - just weeks after escaping Arcadia.

It is peaceful here. There are no laws to disturb us. Nothing else disturbs us either: both Ash and I were pronounced dead after weeks of fruitless searching by the courts' best.

Of course, we only know this because Puck comes around. Not often enough to arouse suspicion, but he keeps us up-to-date on the happenings of the courts. Puck also admitted to being the person that told Oberon about Ash and I, but said that Oberon was getting suspicious himself, and the king had ordered Puck to tell him what he knew, or face banishment. We have forgiven him for this, knowing how horrible it would be to be exiled.

I smile again as Ash appears in front of the house. Our children flock to him, giving him hugs and kisses as he holds tonight's dinner above his head, away from reaching hands. Our youngest daughter, Melissa, begins to cry when she sees the dead animal; she was always more sensitive that any other member of the family. Before I can go outside and comfort her, Ash has already knelt down and began to talking to her in soothing tones, explaining as he has time and time before how it is natural for the higher races to be predators, and how the predators needed prey. He says that she doesn't have to eat the meat if she does not wish to. She nods and wipes away her tears, and as soon as he pulls away from them to enter the house, they go back to playing just as joyfully as before.

He walks into the kitchen and sets the kill down to be skinned and gutted before I cook the usable meat. He rinses his hands off, then wraps his arms around me, looking at me with intense silver eyes. "Hello, love. I missed you"

I laugh. "You were only gone a few hours."

He brushes a kiss to my ear. "A few hours too many."

"I missed you, too." I whisper, and he bends down to give me a kiss.

Life is perfect.

A/N: Yeah, like I said, short. I hope you don't hate me for it.

And so that concludes this story. I really CANNOT decide which longer story I should do next, so I need your help! The poll is up on my profile now, and if you need more details about any of the choices on there, you can PM me. Please! Because I'm horrible at making decisions!

I'm always sad when my longer stories end. I have to go console myself by writing a one-shot. Until then!

Queen of Air and Darkness