A Court Of Flowers And Shadows {Azriel Shadowsinger}

Chapter Thirty-Eight

There once was a girl who had everything that her little heart could desire. She had a roof over her head and food on the table and jewels adorning her throat and wrists. She was often described as the happiest girl in the court, always seen with a smile on her face and always more than ready to help somebody. All the girl ever wanted to do was make someone as happy as she was.

That was the one thing that she didn't have. A one true love. She knew that he would come along though so she didn't worry. The girl appreciated everything that she had and she spoke to every person that she came across. She kept a smile on her face and she waited patiently for her true love to arrive.

She waited...

And waited...

And waited...

It took decades and by this point the girl was now a woman and her smile had turned in to a frown. She had based her entire life and her entire happiness around the fact that she wanted this one true love to arrive and yet he hadn't. She had based her entire happiness around an idea, around a man who didn't exist.

But that was the problem. She had expected her one true love to be a man so she had run away with the first man who had called her his mate. She bore his children and she loved each of them. She became a Lady of the court and she taught her children the instruments that she had learnt to pass the time waiting for her true love. She taught her only daughter that there was so much more to life than the one you're meant to be with and that when you found that person, it would feel like the world had aligned.

Of course the Lady had no idea that she had actually met her one true love, and it wasn't her husband. Her husband may have been her Cauldron given mate but that didn't make him her true love. Her true love had been the woman that had taught her all of those instruments. It had been the woman that had taught her the fiddle and the piano and the flute. It had been the woman who had come by every single day to see that smile that always had graced the Lady's face. It had been the woman who had stuck by her as that smile turned to a frown.

It had been the woman that the Lady had abandoned the second that she heard the word 'mate'.

Now the Lady didn't realise this until many centuries had passed. She didn't realise it until she saw her daughter grow in to an unruly teenager who could only be calmed with the music that the woman had taught the Lady and the Lady had passed on to her children.

The Lady died, never able to tell the woman that she had loved her. That she understood now and she was so sorry that she hadn't seen it sooner. Her smile never did return in all of the years that she spent with her mate. Instead of being the happiest girl in the court, she was the grumpiest Lady instead. The Lady never smiled again until the moment she had died.

The Lady died listening to her daughter playing the song the woman had taught her all those years ago. She died not with her mate but with her one true love.

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I missed it last chapter so here's two:

Fun Fact: Amara can play the cello as well as the piano that she is most known for.

Fun Fact: Dolores once ranted at Azriel about how amazing Amara was and how he was missing out on a perfect mate.