Mauls face was the only thing filled my vision and I ached because of his pain. The ache filled and consumed me until there was… Nothing. Not a thought, or moment, or feeling left in my mind. My body floated, suddenly naked and exposed in a pure white light that surrounded me on all sides. So soft I barely heard it or even understood its words there was a deep whisper reaching out to me. My eyes were closed but I saw… Everything. A rural people rising up and taking over… Only to fall and succumb to more powerful beings and waves intelligence erecting high buildings and moving cars… Just to watch it all fall away in a single tide and start over from its simplest concepts… The place laid out before my minds eye now was Skyrim in all its glory. With a gasp of understanding reaching from within my eyes opened…
I was not alone here in this place in my mind that reached some where between Earth and The Heavens… Before me she stood looking some how bemused in her dragon like face while her body hummed with power. There were no scales on her but intertwining groves of bark like that of the Spriggan I had easily given my life to save. Her languid form moved like water to encase my form and hold me. Then she moved into me as our bodies became one being.
"We've always been one... It just wasn't time for you to know yet…" Her delicate voice rustled through soul the way wind moves the leaves in the trees. "We must return together now… Are you prepared for that?" My soul must have answered a silent yes as she became more apart on my corporal form. Bark that made up her body began to make up parts on my with tendrils of it appearing throughout my forearms and chest, moving down my sides, and spidering across my legs.
With a soft breath of a sigh that came from us both we began to return. It was slow at first but gradual as warmth returned and sound picked up its pace. I became aware of two strong hands on my upper arms gliding us… Upwards? Ah… We were in some type of water. Maul is pushing us up from the bottom, swimming for us both. A pool of healing water gifted to The Spriggans… A whisper supplied in my mind.
After what seemed like an immeasurable stretch of time we broke the surface and gasped air in unison. My head was tilted back with my eyes closed as I took in the sweetly scented air and savored the taste of water on my tongue. Maul must have seen the additions running newly formed down my neck. I brought my head down to finally open my eyes and look at him. Some where in he back of my mind I wondered if he would be disgusted with how I looked now. What I was met with was an hardened yet awed expression as if he'd never seen me before. His hand reach up to stroke his thumb softly across my cheek.
"Eyes… " He whispered softly. "You have a Dragons eyes… Ahhh… Dragoness…" And I don't think it was even a conscious decision when he tipped his head down… And kissed me.