Lyra was raised in a place known as the first land or Ionia. There she lived a peaceful life with her family, until one day everything changed.
Now looking for a new life and sense of belonging she faces many different paths and difficulties, all w...
Talon and I have been spending quite alot of time together, he's shown me so many places around the city, from tailors to jewelers to popular taverns, and today he's supposed to go show me the harbor.
I've also started a job at a one of the opular taverns and I even befriended the girl who works with me, her name is Dita, she's very outspoken and spontaneous, and has a great sense of style. Her hair is straight and black and her frame is feminine, and her green eyes are narrow with full dark lashes.
Picture of Dita
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Dita and I work from the morning until the afternoon and then two other girls take over for the night shift, so Talon comes to get me at work when I finish my shift, but today he's late... I don't see him everyday but I knew we had plans to go to the harbor.
I can't believe how comfortable I've become around him, I know he was instructed to keep a eye on me but I can't help but feel like there is more to it, like maybe he actually likes spending time with me.
Talon is hard to read and in the few weeks we've known each other he hasn't shown a change in emotion very often, he's either annoyed or amused. Although I've heard stories about how brutal he can get, he hasn't shown me that side of him.
"Hey Lyra! When is your murderer lover coming to get you?" Dita asks, she likes teasing me, because I made the mistake of sharing a small secret with her that I might like him, and now she's really rubbing it in, she also knows his reputation and often warns me to be careful.
"He's not my lover Dita..." I say with a sigh and roll my eyes at her.
"I'm just teasing you, can you help me move this table to that corner?" She ask while standing ready to pick the table up, I move to the opposite side and help her move the table. "By the way, remind me not to tell you anything again" I say as I walk over to the bar and start to wipe it down with a cloth.
Dita comes to my side and then lifts herself up onto the bar, she sits swinging her legs and says "Come on you know you can tell me stuff, it's not like I'll go tell someone else"
"So honestly do you really like him ?" She asks, I'm not sure I want to have this discussion. I don't know how I feel we have a complicated relationship, it feels like we're friends but then sometimes if feels like he's just doing his job.
"Dita.. can we not talk about this" I say trying to just brush off the subject.
"Lyra, sorry I'm late" Talon said from behind me with his masculine voice, I swing around, how much of that conversation did he hear?... shit this is embarrassing.
"Ummm no it's fine, I didn't even notice..., let me just grab my coat" I said and then rushed get it from the coat hanger on the other side of the bar.
"Of course" he says. I get the coat and walk to his side with it over my arm. Before we walk out I give Dita a hug and he just nod his head at her.
" So are you excited to see the harbor?" He asks as we make our way out the door and stop next to some horses tied to a hitching rail.
"I am actually very excited, I've only seen the ocean once in my life" I answer.
"What about horses? Can you ride?" He asks and walk over to a beautiful black friesian horse.
"Ohhh wow he's beautiful, I can ride but I'm not that great at it haha" I answer as I rub the horse on his neck. Talon puts his foot in the stirrup iron and swing his leg over the horse so he's sitting in the saddle and then puts his hand out for me to take. "Do you trust me?" He asks.
"Can I answer that when Iget off in one piece?" I say while laughing and grab his hand, he pulls me up so I sit behind him on the horse's back. "Hold onto me" he says and start to back the horse up. We're obviously going quite far since we have to use horseback, instead of walking like we usually do, we rode out of the city but not very far since the harbor is on the edge of the city and I can start to feel the sticky humid air of the ocean on my skin. I rest my face on his back, and his body heat warms my cheek through his clothes, the breeze is chilly and my nose is starting to burn a bit from the cold, I snuggle even more into his back, this is the closest we've ever been... and surprisingly it doesn't feel uncomfortable at all, especially considering I've never willingly been this close to any man.
In the distance I start to see the blue ocean, I got so excited that I stood up on my knees and hold onto Talon's shoulders to get a better view, then suddenly we come to a slow stop and right in front on us is a big tower, with what looks like a little room at the very top because I can see some lantern light shining to the outside.
"We're here" he says, but this doesn't look like a harbor...
"What is this?" I ask.
"It's a lighthouse, it's meant to direct ships" he answer.
"Wow that's amazing! Look how tall it is" I say with excitement.
"Where's the harbor?" I add.
"Well... we'll have to go up there to see it" He says while pointing to the top of the lighthouse.
"Ohh... okay Hahaha is it a bad time to mention that I might be afraid of heights?" I giggle nervously, the idea of being up there is exhilarating but also terrifying.
"It will be fine" Talon says while getting off the horse, he then turns around and hold both hands out to catch me, I hesitantly look at his waiting hands and then slide off the horse into his strong grip, I laugh as he catches me and we both stand in an awkward embrace for what felt like a minute before Talon clears his throat and say "You ready ?"
"If we don't go now I might change my mind" I say while looking to the top of the tower one last time before stepping forward towards the door.
"Let's go then" Talon says and then steps in front of me and hold the door open so I can walk first, as I walk inside there's a large spiral staircase in the center that's leading to the top. I start to slowly climb up the stairs with Talon following behind me.
Talon's POV
"Talon don't you dare look at my ass!... Why am I getting the feel that this is why you let me go first" Lyra says with a strict tone.
"Hahaha, it was so I'd catch you if you fall, but now that you mention it, this is a much better reason" I reply humorously. I hear Lyra sighing and I can't help but laugh, I really didn't look at her ass, because I was concentrating for incase she slips, but now it's unavoidable.
I've grown very attached to her... in a way that I can't explain, I've only known her for a few weeks and it feel like it's hard to imagine a life where she's not in it.
In the past week I decided to come clean with everything to my father, I really don't see her as a threat, and not just because I got attached and I made sure he knew that, but now he wants to meet her in person and I'm panicking internally, I want him to like her so badly that it hurts.
