Working on a farm, her life was filled with plants. The ripening of a new crop of fall vegetables, the smell of the first flowers of the year, the first green shoots bravely stabbing through the earth… She knew them all by heart. She'd been raised with them and with an appreciation for them. When she was little, she thought of herself as a giant walking, talking flower. She thought that she must have been torn from her roots, though; her life felt floating and groundless, as temporary as summer flowers.
Then she met him. He was at first so plain and honest that she thought he must be lying because no one was really that simple, no one really said all he thought. But over time, over visits, it became clear that he was, in fact, as kind and honest and open as he seemed. He was stable, certain, and she began to think of him as immortal in a way. Not as someone who would live forever, but as someone whose actions could repeat forever without changing, as someone who would always react with kindness to adversity and with patience to problems. He offered her his heart, offered her a place to settle her reaching, starving roots.
She buried her face in his neck and breathed in the joy of finding her ground.
AUTHOR'S NOTES
This is another one of those couples I'm not too familiar with; I didn't stick with this game as long as I did some of the others. It's Basil and Nina, from Magical Melody!