"I can't believe that guy! He's such an… a… oh I can't think of a word dreadful enough to describe him!" fumed Meggie, Dustfinger came up behind her and rubbed up and down her arms gently and whispered into her ear
"Don't let him get to you, it's what he is trying to do,"
"Well it has bloody well worked!" replied Meggie crossly. She turned around and looked at him,
"You know you really are amazing, you're such a good friend, you'd protect me no matter what!" she said softly,
"I know Meggie. I don't want anyone to hurt you, and you know I love you," He said tenderly, a slight blush spread over his pale cheeks, turning them the colour of rosebuds. Meggie blushed and walked over to the sofa. A beautifully large thing it was, it had several huge cushions scattered across it, and the blue fabric was covered in ornate little drawings of all the mythical creatures in existence; Fairies, nymphs, gnomes, goblins, dragons, trolls, giants, unicorns, spirits. Meggie looked at Dustfinger; at the way his beautiful long dark raven hair caught the light, ending up with a blue-green tinge to it, at the way his deep green eyes sparkled when he looked at her, at the way his lean muscular body always seemed to lean towards her as though there was a magnetic field drawing him towards her, she could see he wanted to just be near her, he carried on just standing next to the light, watching her with a longing look on his face, she knew he loved her, she believed he always had since the time he had crept into her house and met with her father trying to persuade him to read him back into the book he had come from.
"I know you do," she replied quietly after some time, she carried on studying his face and blushed suddenly and turned her face away when she was caught.
"I like you, you know I do, but I don't think I love you, yet." She whispered quietly, too softly for him to hear her. Meggie stood up suddenly.
"I'm going for a walk, are you coming?" she asked,
"I'll come if you want me to, but don't ask me to if you would prefer to go alone" he replied,
"Well I need to think so you can come, I'd like you to, but I shan't be very interesting," she said.
"Well if you do need to think I shall leave you to walk alone and I shall walk but also by my self." He smiled at her and watched as she exited the room.