Rhys and Titania
GIFT
He would do anything for her for free if need be, but she just was not satisfied with that. Titania felt as though she had to give Rhys something in return for being such a good, close, wonderful friend for all of these years. So what was it she decided to give him? Well it's a funny story but to summarize she had only the right gift in mind but he got the wrong gift in the end. It all started when she went over to Brom's farm to purchase some apples.
"Brom," she said, "I would like to purchase some apples."
"Very good, Miss Titania," he said, "These here apples are delicious and don't have any worms in them or nothing."
"No worms? That sounds like a challenge!" Boyd said upon her return. "I'll just have to take bites out of all of these apples to see if there really are no worms inside of them."
Boyd was about to eat the apples, when Rolf stopped him. "No!"
"What?" Boyd asked.
"They're all dirty! Let me clean them in the pond," Rolf responded, carrying the basket of apples. He accidentally dropped them in a pile of horse dung. "Oh, crap," Rolf said.
Boyd said, "This is no time for incredibly stupid puns! We need to salvage the apples. But how? They're so filthy and covered in horse crap!"
"I know! I'll ask Shinon!" Rolf said, so he skipped along and found his mentor. "SHINON!" he shouted.
"What is it?" Shinon asked.
"We accidentally dropped something in horse dung. What do we use to clean it?" Rolf asked.
Unaware the dropped thing was edible, Shinon provided the most potent antibacterial substance available at the time and handed it to Rolf. Rolf soaked the apples, which soon smelled not of feces but of poison.
"Uh-oh," Boyd said, "I think we did something wrong."
Titania went, without smelling the apples and started to bake them in a pie. She took the pie out of the oven and smelled it, wondering if her nose was fooling her. Boyd tripped her, screaming "NOOOOOO!" and the pie ended up in the priest's face.
"Well," Titania said, "At least you got your pie." She then threw a tantrum like a little girl and stormed off.
Rhys curiously wiped the pie off his face, and wondered what on earth was going on.
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TALK
"Remember that one time that you and I wandered off without leave from Commander Greil?" Rhys asked, "Wasn't that a funny time?"
"I suppose it was," Titania responded, "Those people in our group were so confused because we were missing. I remember Shinon saying, 'Is it National Redheads Disappear Into Thin Air Day? Because if it is you missed me.' Then Oscar and Boyd tried to look for us…"
"Yes," Rhys said, "If I recall correctly, Boyd thought I was hiding underneath one of the stones on the battlefield."
"And Oscar kept having to drag him everywhere looking for us, and when they finally found us we were hanging upside down in a tree."
"Yes, Titania," Rhys said, "Because you and I were trying to explore the upper reaches of the mountain, but I lost my footing and stumbled into the root of a tree while you were holding my hand."
"Exactly!" Titania said, as the two began to giggle alongside each other. This pair was in paradise.
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HARDSHIP
His head was warm, and his skin was pale. His hands were ice cold, he was coughing like a roaring lion, and his voice was even more inaudible than usual. "Why does it work like that?" Titania asked with a hand on his forehead, as he lay in bed.
"How?" Rhys managed to cough out.
"The kindest, most well-behaved people get punished and people like Shinon are allowed to roam free," Titania mentioned.
"Don't be too hard on him, Titania," Rhys mentioned, "He's troubled, yes, but he is ultimately good. And those who sin relentlessly are punished, by the toils of war, by the hardship of sentences, and by the impact of their own guilt"
"But," Titania said, "Still, why would the goddess take her vengeance out on a priest?"
"She is not 'taking her vengeance out on me'. Her 'vengeance' was the implied Armageddon, but Ike quickly put a stop to that. The goddess does care for me, you know. That's why she created our first encounter. You will always be there to take care of me."
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ARGUMENT
"I'm going to the battle," Rhys exclaimed.
"No, you're not," Titania responded, "You'll get hurt."
"But if someone else gets hurt, you'll need me."
"We have Mist," Titania said, "She isn't sick."
"But what if Mist gets hurt?"
"I think Soren can use staves," Titania responded.
"Uhh… Titania?" Rhys reminded, "He and Ike left for places unknown, remember?"
"Oh, yeah," Titania said.
"I'm going to the battlefield."
"Okay," Titania said, "But only if you stick with me."
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RELAXATION
There was something odd about this pair, and what it was was hard to pinpoint. Whenever people had read storybooks about chivalry, it was always the gentleman helping the lady, but in this case, it was the lady who helped the gentleman. The two of them had no qualms with their role reversal, and they had worked together to make it tie in to their relationship. Rhys was so delicate, so Titania had to nurture him, like a child. And Rhys had no problem with Titania taking charge. The two of them gladly wrapped their arms around each other, and Titania sighed knowing how good of a priest Rhys was.