This chapter is about Dawn, but it's going to be the last chapter about her. There will be fifteen chapters in the finished version of this, and I have the final chapter written already. There is a slight break between this chapter and the next but I just couldn't write what I wanted to into a chapter and I love what I did with the last one. Anyway.
Chapter fourteen; Why Don't youThe most common question in the world…why. And something asked for so many reasons that it is hard to find a true definition of it. But it is a very lonely word… it says to me, and to other people I've spoken too, 'I don't understand you. We're not as close as we could and should be.'
It was a sunny day and the horses roasted in the heat. Near the back of the trail Bollox grunted stropily and moved to the side of the path to munch on some pale green shoots that were pushing their way up through the ground. Dawn pulled him back onto the path and the continued forward.
The announcement of Dawn and Myst's engagement had gone down okay but unfortunately they had not yet been married. It wasn't that there were problems with them being married, but it was the way of the tribe that everyone was married in the home village, and as they were several hundred miles away it would take some time for the marriage to come through. Not that this bothered them in any way, everything seemed to be going amazing and the villagers were happy. Or they would have been if it wasn't for Terry's reaction to the engagement.
"How could you." He hissed at Dawn as they pulled to a stop at the edge of a river and he came forward to meet her. "You knew how I felt, you knew I was going to ask you to marry me, but you still went off with that, that…Woman!"
"He's no woman but a better man than you could ever be. I don't know why you're so cross with what's been happening. It's not like there was any chance of us being married."
"How can you say that?" Terry groaned. "We were in love Dawn, I loved you and you would have loved me if you had given me a chance. You told your friends that you loved me, so why couldn't we be married."
"Terry, I love everyone to some extent, but I don't love many people the same as I love Myst. You can't say that you've never loved anyone before." She paused, and then realised the trap she'd fallen into, because now he would claim that she had loved him.
"So you did love me then, I knew it would work between us!"
"No!" She exclaimed. "Stop twisting my words! That isn't what I said!"
"You said you loved me, that means it would have worked between us!"
"I loved you, and still do, but I love you like a brother."
"That's not good enough though." He replied… "I want you to love me more than as a brother!"
Dawn shook her head in exasperation, it was clear that he wasn't going to understand.
It was two days later when the accident happened. They were crossing a river with the horses and it was clear that they would reach home village within a few short days. If they went at a good rate it could even be the next day.
Destiny, however, had different ideas, because as Dawn was guiding Bollox across the river he hit a loose stone. With any other animal that would have been fine, but because this was Bollox and his mind was on his dinner and the fresh green grass the other side of the river they lost control. Dawn was starting to panic but as the wagon she was sitting on got more and more covered in water her death materialised beside her. Even though it was the first time she'd seen him in person she wasn't shocked, and took everything quite well.
"Come." He said, and although she realised that this was the end she went with him anyway.
"What about Myst?" she asked as she moved away, watching him stand by the edge of the river and cry. In the distance she could see her motionless body, still on its cart.
"He will come when it's his time, but for now it's yours not his." Oblatang explained and Dawn excepted this, following him onwards into the depths of the world of the dead.
Stargazing Maiden would like to apologise for the short chapter…she had a block on this one and just wanted to get it finished. The next chapters will be better. Stargazing Maiden would also like to say that if she's got this much posted then she must have some smack-good fans cause she wasn't going to post unless she got at least one review per chapter. So thanks…it's good to be loved.