There she is.
Never have I known such beauty.
I don't just mean physical, although you can note the 'just'. She is perfect in almost everyway. She is unsoiled by the filthy world around her. Never do dishonorable things flow from her mouth, she helps her parents with chores without their asking, but most of all, she gives everything a chance, spirit or human.
And yet, I cannot touch her. So, I watch when the other spirits think I'm chasing after my own kind. I really don't care that she isn't a dragon. After all, that is only a physical shell.
Then again, there is a point here. What would happen if we were together, some mere sixty or seventy years down the road? Or, even if that time was a little extended in the spirit world? She would die. I would be alone.
Most humans pass on to the next life, heaven or hell. I would be stuck between the mortal world and spirit world, possibly for eternity. A dragon's life is very strange and we are frequently reborn into the spirit world, rather than move on as humans do.
So, is it better that I distance myself and wait until she passes?
I don't know if this love ever will.
"Bade, come out from behind that bush! I just heard you…." she calls.
Sitting beneath a large tree, a drawing pad on her lap, she was darling with her sleeves and hair pulled back.
"Bade?" she says quieter than before.
Leaving her tools behind, I can see her walking towards the small field in front of several apartment complexes, what used to be my home. Turning the notebook by willing the wind to move just so, the pages open.
My heart is breaking.
There in the notebook is the most admirable drawing of a dragon I have ever seen. He is standing tall but with his head lowered to the waiting arms of a beautiful young maiden. She is cupping his head gently, her forehead resting against his. I scan the rest of the image and find that I can no longer stay.
Running towards the boundary to the spirit world in my invisible form, the words stay with me.
"The day we are reunited."
I don't plan on continuing this story, but it is sort of a prequel to "Never Meant to Be". All comments/suggestions/etc are welcome.
