Tia pulled away from Thom's embrace and said softly, "I'm sorry but I'm not suppose to be here...alive." Thom's eyes filled with tears, "Is that all you have to say to two years of hard work? To a man who sacrificed all to search, never cessing to find and learn a scroll that my namesake made? To someone who ignored everyone who said it was impossible to bring back the dead and that I was crazy for believing so? To someone who starved himself to death just to find a fabled scroll." Thom's distress was poorly hidden; once more did Tia say sorry.
Thom looked away, "I thought...I thought we could start a new life here...without the prying eyes of nobles and family." He stared off into the distant Zekoi River, Tia moved to comfort him, "No your right." Thom said looking at Tia, "I shouldn't have resurrected you...but I had to know..." he went on one knew, pulled a velvet box, opened it, presenting Tia with a expensive wedding ring, "Will you marry me?" hope filled Thom's red rimmed amethyst eyes.
Tia was shocked but was prevented answering as vomit rushed up her throat, all Tia could do was rush to Thom's opened desk window and release it, "Morning sickness." Thom observed then he remembered Tia's grand pronouncement the day she was executed just before dying, "I'm a father." He said not willing to believe, "I'm a father!" Thom was now extremely exited; he was up of the floor and dancing around madly.
When Tia composed herself she said, "I wouldn't be too happy Thom." She said, "Before I came here a voice said, 'If you must go you can't have this' I think it was the Dark God, after he said those words I vomited and felt sick. I think he removed or did something to the baby." Thom sat down on one of the few chairs not covered in documents and scrolls and thought, "With the Gods who knows what their up to." Thom said still thinking.
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The Great Mother Goddess was furious how could her brother do something this stupid; just to help two foolish mortals? It was beyond sanity then again her brother was not know to have a shred of sanity when it comes to mortals. Comes from living with them I think, the Goddess thought about the realms of the dead.
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Alanna woke up in cold sweat, felt the increasing power from Carthak she got out of bed and wondered where she had felt that sensation before. Still thinking about it over breakfast she realized that it was when her brother Thom was having one of his 'experiments' during All Hollow's Eve, when she later found out that he had resurrected Duke Roger, she remembered Thom was in Carthak and wondered who he could possibly be resurrecting. Her plate fell to the floor with a crash spilling milk and porridge everywhere, it hit Alanna like a sledgehammer: Tia.
Running to her room and ignoring the startled glances of the maids, she made her way to her room and rummaged through her draws looking for the one thing that could possibly give her insight into what was happening in Carthak: a mirror.
Alanna found it and using her gift she saw into the capital of Carthaki Empire and searched for Thom, finding it, Alanna gasped as she saw her son Thom proposing to Tia, an alive Tia and vaguely realized that the power build up had stopped.
It had been years since Tia was hung but Thom obviously became obsessed and Alanna remembered her own words, "Leaving the country is like running away." At the time she knew Thom wasn't really paying attention. And now thanks to her own brother, Thom had resurrected his lost love in a way it was like a fairy tale but one that been warped.
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Once Tia had had the chance to think about what Thom ask her she really didn't know what to say, she was only alive by the work of a long dead half-uncle and her half-brother and she knew that Thom had put in so much hard work to bring her back alive, what were her choices? Say no and have the man who loved her and eventually become obsessed with her heartbroken? Or marry Thom and live a life that was so cruelly taken away from her? Looking at Thom's red rimmed purple eyes, Tia realized how much this man before her loved her and how he sacrifice everything to have her alive and ask her one question, 'Will you marry me?'
Tia looked deep within her own heart and realized that she would have taken the same path Thom had to ask that same question, voice thick with emotion Tia said, "Yes Thom, I will".
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The ceremony was conducted in a beautiful garden surrounded by hedges and roses, the priest was unsure about the couple who came to his door but after a few minutes talking to the wannabe husband and wife his fears were brushed aside.
"I do." Tia said looking into the eyes of her new husband she vaguely heard the words of the priest, "You may now kiss the bride." And both Thom and Tia released their feelings for each other unaware that there were more people watching then they had thought.
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A/n: I suppose I could end it right there but there is so much I have left unanswered, your choice continue or leave it as a "warped fairytale ending"? and please read my other story "The Phathanian Empire" it sounds probly 'not interesting' but give it a go, I've based almost everything in that story on history.